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Sep 30 2025 2:12PM

After emergency call outages.

Singtel says Optus CEO needs time to fix issues

Optus's CEO will need more time to turn around the embattled telecom carrier, the boss of its parent Singapore Telecommunications, who is in Australia to confront the fallout from outages of its emergency call services, said. The back-to-back outages, which happened less than two weeks apart, ...

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