Optus' chief technology officer Tony Baird is set to leave the carrier and will hand over the role to Telstra fixed and mobile engineering chief Sri Amirthalingam. Baird’s exit is the third Optus has ...

Sri Amirthalingam joins from arch-rival Telstra, where he served most recently as executive director of wireless networks. Optus' outgoing CTO Tony Baird will help his replacement settle in before ...

Optus CTO Tony Baird is to leave the company in the wake of a major outage on its network in 2025, with long-time Telstra executive Sri Amirthalingam appointed as his successor. The operator stated ...

SYDNEY - Optus’ management has been sharply criticised in an independent review into September’s fatal emergency call outage, which found that a series of avoidable failures and cultural shortcomings ...

Optus has released a much-anticipated review into September's network outage that left hundreds of people unable to reach Triple Zero (000) and was linked to two deaths. The review, by experienced ...

Some Queensland Optus customers say they are still affected by a network outage on Thursday, despite the telco insisting the issue has been resolved. More than 90,000 Optus customers across Brisbane ...

A fresh Optus outage cut NBN internet connections to 95,000 customers across Brisbane and parts of Queensland, with some customers unable to make Triple Zero calls from their landline. Optus said a ...

Australian telco Optus has suffered yet another network outage. The carrier's latest outage today (December 3) impacted close to 100,000 customers in Brisbane. A network server failure caused the ...

SYDNEY -Australian telco Optus said on Nov 26 it had suffered a service outage near Melbourne impacting around 14,000 users, two months after a disruption to emergency calls that probably caused four ...

Two Optus customers have accused the embattled telco of trapping them in a complaint "merry-go-round", as more people demand compensation over lengthy service outages and other serious issues. The ...

SYDNEY: Australia's Optus suffered a service outage on Wednesday morning (Nov 26), two months after a broader disruption that was said to have caused four deaths when customers failed to get timely ...

“Optus confirms that mobile services in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria have now been fully restored following a suspected vandalism incident earlier today,” the telco said in ...