Australia’s second largest telecoms operator, Optus, has experienced a major outage on its network, affecting communications and internet access for approximately 10 million subscribers. The outage affected hundreds of cities on the country’s east coast, including major cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. TASS.
According to Optus representatives, the cause of the malfunction has not yet been determined and all technical services of the company are working to restore the system. The Optus network outage had serious consequences for Australian residents and businesses. A few hours after the outage began, the company announced that some services had been restarted, and it may take a few more hours for communication and internet to be restored in all regions.
Due to lack of communications and internet, public transport in Melbourne was disrupted, phone numbers of some medical services, including the ambulance service, and databases of many universities were closed. At the same time, the operations of some banks and payment systems, as well as Uber taxi and food delivery services, were also disrupted. At the same time, some users retained access to the Telegram messenger and the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The Australian government said authorities were aware of a large-scale failure affecting a large proportion of the country’s population. Industry experts believe that the most likely cause of the incident was an incorrect attempt to update the system, which led to a series of failures at all levels.
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