Australia said on Thursday it would investigate an outage at telco Optus that cut off internet and phone connections to nearly half of its population, causing widespread chaos and leading some small business customers to seek compensation.
More than 10 million Australians, 40% of the population, were hit by the 12-hour network blackout at the nation's No. 2 telco firm for much of Wednesday,The government would undertake a post-incident review into the outage that hit payments, transport and hospitals, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said, describing the impacts as "particularly concerning."
Australia's media regulator will conduct a separate review into the outage after emergency triple zero calls went down on Optus landlines, Rowland added. "There's no doubt that it has to be on the table," Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones told ABC Radio. "If you're a small business that's lost a day's takings because your phone system wasn't working then you're going to be asking those hard questions."
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