The outage disrupted phone lines, crashed payment systems and impacted millions of customers.
SYDNEY: Nationwide outages hit a major Australian communications company Wednesday, disrupting phone lines, crashing payment systems and impacting millions of customers.
“Our systems are actually very stable. We provide great coverage to our customers, this is a very rare occurrence,” she said. Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the Optus outage had been caused by a “deep fault” in a “fundamental” part of the company’s network.
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