SINGAPORE: Australian Minister for Communications Anika Wells said on Thursday (Sep 25) that she has asked to speak with Singtel in Australia next week over its subsidiary Optus' network outage. The ...

When it rains, it pours. Just when Optus thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. Over the weekend, Australia’s second-largest telco suffered yet another outage affecting a mobile phone tower site ...

SINGAPORE: When it rains, it sometimes pours. And for Singtel’s Australian unit, Optus, it has been a virtual deluge in recent years. The latest fiasco at Australia’s second-largest telco occurred on ...

The Singtel-owned carrier is seeking answers after a firewall upgrade misstep left parts of Australia without Triple Zero emergency call access on Sept 18. Optus has appointed Kerry Schott to lead an ...

The country’s second-largest telecoms business had already taken over the operation of some franchised stores, but will ...

as his leadership and the phone company came under fire in Australia’s Parliament. “I firmly believe that another change of leader at this time is not what Optus needs or what our customers need,” Mr ...

It comes as a fourth death has been linked to failed attempts to contact the emergency services which were down for nearly 14 hours in parts of the country, with an eight-week-old baby among those who ...

[SINGAPORE] Singtel’s Australian subsidiary Optus has appointed John Arthur, a non-executive director, as its new board chairman with effect from Monday (Aug 25). Arthur replaces outgoing chairman ...

just as a delegation from parent company Singtel visits Australia this week to meet Communications Minister Anika Wells over the fallout from earlier disruptions. Optus continues to investigate the ...

The ad campaign was to be a significant play from Optus which aimed to rebuild trust and consumer confidence following the national outage and cyber breach. The campaign, which was created by ...