CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s federal and state governments on Wednesday called for Optus to pay for replacing identification documents including passports and driver’s licenses to avoid ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from regular processes on a network upgrade sparked a technical failure that disrupted emergency call ...

Optus, Australia's second-largest telecoms services provider, said on Thursday that an independent review into its September outage found gaps in process, accountability, escalation, and information ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -An outage at No.2 Australian telco Optus left nearly half the population without internet or phone on Wednesday, throwing payment, transport and health systems into chaos and raising ...

The telecommunication company’s report seeks to absolve management of any responsibility for the fatal events of September 18 ...

Optus lost quality control over its network teams and call centres by outsourcing the essential work to overseas providers, an independent report into the catastrophic failure of its connectivity with ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus 100 million Australian dollars ($66 million) Wednesday for unconscionable conduct selling services to hundreds of ...

update Australia's second largest telco Optus plans to spend between AU$500 million and AU$800 million to extend its third generation (3G) mobile coverage outside of Australia's capital cities to ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — 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 linked ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has hit Optus with a AU$504,000 fine for breaking spam laws. Between 1 June and 4 December 2018, ACMA said Optus had sent SMS and email ...

Optus, the Australian unit of telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications STEL.SI, said it was investigating the unauthorised access of customer details including home addresses, driver’s licence and ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - Optus, Australia's second-largest telecoms services provider, said on Thursday that an independent review into its September outage found gaps in process, accountability, escalation ...