SA Ambulance received no alerts from service meant to notify authorities during Optus triple zero outage last month
by Josh Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#70G1J)
Exclusive: Despite being signed up to a new alert system, the South Australian emergency service was not notified during September's triple zero outage
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South Australia's ambulance service was signed up to a new system that is supposed to send notifications when Optus has a triple zero outage, but says it was not notified during the outage last month.
September's triple zero outage was caused by a network firewall upgrade which blocked emergency calls for Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.
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