‘Incompetent’: SA premier slams Optus as eight-week-old baby among three who died when triple zero calls failed
by Guardian staff from World news | The Guardian on (#705PF)
Peter Malinauskas criticised the telco for its communications after two people in South Australia and one in Western Australia died during the network upgrade
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The South Australian premier has said he's never witnessed such incompetence" from an Australian communications company after an eight-week-old baby was among three people who died during a botched Optus network upgrade.
Optus chief executive Stephen Rue admitted on Friday that the upgrade, which prevented people from making triple-zero calls the day before, impacted up to 600 households in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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