Australian telecommunication providers who are caught breaching industry codes will no longer be warned before being slapped with new multi-million dollar fines.
Cheyanne Enciso
The competition regulator will not stand in the way of TPG and Optus’ $1.6 billion network-sharing deal in what has been described as a huge win for customers across regional Australia.
Telcos Telstra and Optus will give up a share in Google’s advertising revenue following an investigation by the competition watchdog into the tech giant’s search services in Australia.
New Optus customers will have to fork out up to $13 extra for their monthly mobile plans but will get more data, with the telco blaming higher costs for the price rises.
Australia’s media regulator is taking legal action against telecommunications giant Optus over a major cyber attack in September 2022.
An independent report into last year’s Optus network outage that left millions of Australians without phone and internet services has been handed to the Federal Government.
Kimberley Caines
Optus has conceded almost 2700 people were unable to contact triple-0 during a widespread outage last year — more than ten times the amount initially projected.
Caleb Runciman
With next year marking the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s international breakthrough with Waterloo at the Eurovision Song Contest, we take a different look back at 2023 - via the supergroup’s songs.
Sean Smith
The chief executive of Optus has bowed to immense public and political pressure and announced she will quit the job less than two weeks after a nationwide outage.
Daniel Newell
Embattled Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin carries a spare Telstra and Vodafone SIM card to keep connected in case of an outage like the one that struck up to 10 million of her own customers.
Kimberley Caines and Dan Jervis-Bardy
Cash compensation is looking unlikely for Optus customers left in the lurch amid the telco’s chaotic outage last week, with under-fire chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin knocking back financial compensation.
Simone Grogan
It’s a question many will have idly considered: what would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse? This week the country got a preview and it was more terrifying than anything you’d see on The Walking Dead.
Kate Emery
I have never been a fan of the Optus Stadium naming rights arrangement. Not because the State Govt sold the name to Optus but because they sold the name at all. It’s our stadium, it should have the Perth name.
Basil Zempilas
As stuff ups go, Wednesday’s Optus outage was a colossal one.
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin once described herself as an ‘impatient perfectionist’. But it was her 10 million Optus customers who were impatient on Wednesday when the telco giant went down for more than 12 hours.
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin will be hauled before a Senate inquiry to explain why the telco suffered a 12-hour communications blackout as her reputation comes under fire.
Crisis management is fairly simple, but it appears to be too hard for the nation’s second-largest telco and its chief executive. Surely she can’t survive another scandal?
Sarah-Jane Tasker
It is too early to gauge just how big the impact of the Optus outage will have on small businesses, the State’s peak lobby group says, but one local owner is already expecting a loss of at least $10,000.
Optus has warned customers affected by a massive nationwide outage that calls to emergency services will not work.
WA hospitals have been hit by the Optus network failure, with various landlines affected by what is believed to be the biggest telecommunications outage in history.
Lauren Price
Embarrassingly for Optus, today’s nationwide outage comes just a little over a year after the telco was hit by the worst cybersecurity breach in Australian history.
WA’s golden run of major sporting events will extend into the new year with Perth set to be one of the host cities for both the 2024 and 2025 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
Josh Zimmerman
Plans are afoot to bring megastars Coldplay to Perth for a one-off concert at Optus Stadium, which is hoped to be a massive tourism coup for Western Australia.
Kellie Balaam
Optus says customers who were caught in one of the worst data breaches in Australian corporate history will not require a new passport.
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