We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia. The concept is simple—if you need aid from police, fire, or ambulance, you ...

Three people have died in Australia following a technical failure at Optus, the country's second-largest telecommunications provider, which disrupted vital emergency call services. Optus CEO Stephen ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country’s telecommunications industry after a major company’s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was ...

A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a ...

TPG says customer call failed to connect with emergency services Carrier says customers with outdated handsets had been informed TPG says there was no network outage at the time Industry regulator ...

SYDNEY, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Australian telco Optus said on Wednesday it had suffered a service outage near Melbourne impacting around 14,000 users, two months after a disruption to emergency calls that ...

Telecommunications company Optus published a report on December 12 into its Triple Zero outage in September that resulted in at least two deaths after hundreds of people were unable to reach emergency ...