Optus' communication breakdown | Insiders On Background

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Last month’s fatal Optus outage exposed vulnerabilities in the triple-zero network.As pressure mounts on the telco, key questions remain unanswered: how could this have happened? And what can be done to prevent future outages? Luke Coleman from the Australian Telecommunications Alliance joined David Speers for this week's Insiders On Background.

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