Trains and emergency calls affected after major outage at Australia's largest telecoms company
Servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne were to blame but the exact cause remains unknown.
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"Australia can absolutely have faith in its biggest telco... we take these outages very very seriously."
— Michael Ackland , Executive
"A software defects related to time-keeping servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne was to blame - not a cyber attack."
— Michael Ackland , Executive
"The outage was deeply concerning."
— Anthony Albanese , Politician
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Servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne were to blame but the exact cause remains unknown.
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