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We ask Singaporeans: Where is the Internet? Following their cheeky "Wi-Fi or Wifey" and "Broadband or Your Man" street polls ... Show more
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Singtel to launch cloud computing offering with Nvidia AI chips: It is launching the service in Singapore and South-east Asia in the third quarter of 2024
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Singtel to launch cloud computing offering with Nvidia AI chips
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Telstra lifts lid on ‘unacceptable’ triple-zero outage: CEO Vicki Brady says basic errors were behind the outage that left more than 100 Australians unable to ...
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Telstra lifts lid on ‘unacceptable’ triple-zero outage
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Optus’ network boss quits four months after outage: The departure comes after an outage that affected 10 million customers, and while the company is still ...
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Optus’ network boss quits four months after outage
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Singtel sells 0.8% direct stake in Airtel, expects $700 million gain: With the sale, its effective stake in Airtel will decrease to 29% from 29.8%.
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Singtel sells 0.8% direct stake in Airtel, expects $700 million gain
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New Singtel anti-scam feature cuts down on 2FA by matching phone numbers against telco data at the backend
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New Singtel anti-scam feature cuts down on 2FA by matching phone numbers ...
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Optus has been slapped with a $1.5 million penalty after being found responsible for "alarming" breaches of public safety rules ... Show more
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Singtel partners with Nvidia in AI data center push in ASEAN: SINGAPORE -- Singapore Telecommunications on Wednesday announced a tie-up with Nvidia to deploy ...
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Singtel partners with Nvidia in AI data center push in ASEAN
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Telkom Indonesia looking to sell stake in data centre business, to conclude deal by H2
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The laws every Indian woman should know of: Listen to this episode from Top of the Morning on Spotify. Don't be startled — you're still listening to ...
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The laws every Indian woman should know of
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Man who worked for Singtel exclusive retailer misused customer data to get phones worth S$20,000
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Man who worked for Singtel exclusive retailer misused customer data to get ...
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New regulations ‘will open the floodgates’ on SMS scams: Telstra, TPG and Optus are on a rare unity ticket fighting against proposed changes they say will lead ...
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New regulations ‘will open the floodgates’ on SMS scams
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Singtel S’pore business units merged but ‘still lots to do’, says S’pore CEO: Inefficiencies from having two parallel business units should be eliminated after ...
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Singtel S’pore business units merged but ‘still lots to do’ ...
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus: Singtel said on Tuesday (Jan 30) it was not looking to divest from its Optus unit ...
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus
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Back in action this week 🏡⚪️ Watch us live in Australia this Sunday only on Optus Sport 📺 #SpursAU
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Optus reveals 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than previously disclosed
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Optus reveals 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than ...
Quick Glance: Optus: 10-Fold Triple-Zero Failure
  • More than 10 times the number of triple-zero calls failed during Optus’ mass outage than previously reported.

  • Optus failed to conduct welfare checks on over 2000 customers unable to connect to emergency services.

  • Internal review revealed 2468 customers made triple-zero calls during the outage that were unable to go through, with no welfare checks undertaken.

  • Optus interim CEO apologized to customers unable to access triple-zero services during the outage.
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Telstra posts $1 billion profit, but enterprise unit falls flat: Boss Vicki Brady has lauded the telco’s mobile growth but says some parts of the business are ...
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Telstra posts $1 billion profit, but enterprise unit falls flat
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Opposition grills department over lack of warnings about failing triple-0 calls from Optus
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Telcos’ customer complaints spike after Optus outage: Ombudsman Cynthia Gebert says the company’s offers of free data was cold comfort for many Optus customers ...
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Telcos’ customer complaints spike after Optus outage
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus: Singtel (STEL.SI) said on Tuesday it was not looking to divest from its Optus unit ...
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus
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Documents obtained exclusively by the ABC reveal a discrepancy in communications int eh government and Optus during last year’s major outage ... Show more
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Singapore telcos offer call blocking from international numbers to combat scams: Singtel, StarHub, M1 and SIMBA will allow its customers to block incoming calls ...
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Singapore telcos offer call blocking from international numbers to combat ...
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K-pop group Shinee’s March Singapore concert on same day as Taylor Swift’s: They last performed here in 2012 and will bring their sixth world tour to Singapore ...
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K-pop group Shinee’s March Singapore concert on same day as Taylor Swift’s
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CEO of Singtel-owned Optus resigns following Australia-wide outage: Ex-StarHub CEO Peter Kaliaropoulos has been appointed chief operating officer – a newly ...
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CEO of Singtel-owned Optus resigns following Australia-wide outage
Quick Glance: Optus CEO Resigns After Nationwide Outage
  • Optus CEO Ms Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns following nationwide outage.

  • Mr Michael Venter, Chief Financial Officer, will concurrently take on the role of interim CEO as the company embarks on a global search for a new head.

  • Singtel group CEO emphasizes the importance of customer trust and the need to regain trust and confidence.

  • Bayer Rosmarin resigns after being criticized for slow response and lack of communication during the outage.
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Singtel mobile data services restored after users face intermittent access issue: A Singtel spokesperson said that services were fully restored by 8.17am.
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Singtel mobile data services restored after users face intermittent access ...
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Australia's 3G network shutdown begins this Friday with Vodafone. Here's what you need to know
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Australia's 3G network shutdown begins this Friday with Vodafone ...
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Her murder shocked the nation, and today it was time to say goodbye to Lilie James. 500 mourners attended the funeral service at her old school ... Show more
Quick Glance: Optus: No Plan for Total Outage
  • Australia's second-largest telco, Optus, had no crisis plan for a network-wide outage that left nearly half the country without phone or internet for 12 hours.

  • The outage, triggered by a standard software upgrade at Singtel, resulted in 228 calls to the Australian emergency hotline Triple-0 failing to connect.

  • Optus had to physically reboot all 90 routers and another 50 core network devices, leading to an outage duration from 4am to 4pm.

  • Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin admitted the company took six hours to dispel public concerns it was under a cyber attack.
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Less than ‘match fit’ Optus pays a heavy price for failure: The end of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s tenure as chief executive at Australia’s second-largest ...
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Less than ‘match fit’ Optus pays a heavy price for failure
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Quick Glance: Major Optus Outage Affects Millions of Customers
  • Optus customers experienced at least seven hours of inability to make or receive calls or use the internet on Wednesday due to a major outage affecting hospitals, public transport, and businesses across Australia.

  • The outage also affects other telcos using the Optus network such as Amaysim, Vaya, Aussie Broadband, Moose Mobile, Coles Mobile, Spintel, Southern Phone, Gomo, and Dodo Mobile, first reported by users around 4am.

  • Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin apologized for the outage, impacting millions of the telecommunications provider’s 10.2 million customers.

  • NetBlocks, a watchdog organization monitoring cybersecurity and Internet governance, reported metrics showing Optus mobile services went down across much of Australia around 4am AEDT.
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There was no shortage of corporate news or scandals in 2023. From the PwC tax leak and Optus outage, to everything Qantas ... Show more
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Singapore's most influential lawyers under 40: One of this year’s awardees assisted in Singapore’s largest money laundering investigation.
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Singapore's most influential lawyers under 40
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Singtel H1 profit up 82.6% on exceptional gain; dividend of 5.2 cents a share: Strong showings from NCS and Digital InfraCo offset weakness in the group’s ...
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Singtel H1 profit up 82.6% on exceptional gain; dividend of 5 ...
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Australia's anti-corruption commissioner has taken aim at what he describes as a national "blame culture", as he questioned what benefit the ... Show more
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Australia: Ten million without internet after total outage: In Australia, a total outage at the mobile phone provider Optus has paralyzed the telephone and ...
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Australia: Ten million without internet after total outage
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Alan Joyce and Kelly Bayer Rosmarin have joined a long line of CEOs who failed to win the blame game
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Alan Joyce and Kelly Bayer Rosmarin have joined a long line of CEOs who ...
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The lessons Australia’s CEOs are failing to learn: What remains surprising is how often companies and chief executives fail to learn lessons from past crises ...
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The lessons Australia’s CEOs are failing to learn
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Banks, telcos to be quizzed at Senate hearing into Optus outage: Whoever is appointed Optus’ next CEO will need years to rebuild the telco’s reputation ...
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Banks, telcos to be quizzed at Senate hearing into Optus outage
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Optus apologises after worker’s chat revealed: An Optus customer has been left shocked after receiving an extremely blunt response when reaching out for help to ...
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Optus apologises after worker’s chat revealed
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Singtel 5G services restored after users faced ‘intermittent difficulties’ accessing mobile services
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Singtel 5G services restored after users faced ‘intermittent difficulties’ ...
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Identity of ‘third-party’ that brought down Optus network revealed: An executive from the company that contributed to the Optus outage left a Canadian telco less ...
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Identity of ‘third-party’ that brought down Optus network revealed
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Matildas, Barbenheimer top Australians’ Google searches for 2023: From Coronation quiche to the Optus outage, Google’s data gives a look at what we’re searching ...
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Matildas, Barbenheimer top Australians’ Google searches for 2023
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Besieged Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has faced questions over the telco's disastrous outage. With her future in doubt ... Show more
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Asia regional address registry APNIC calls for global response to ISP failures: Geoff Huston is calling for the creation of a hypothetical routing police ...
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Asia regional address registry APNIC calls for global response to ISP ...
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While millions were counting the cost of the Optus outage, the company’s smirking CEO fronted the media. What she did next cost her badly. Full story: bit.ly/47xV4bU
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Optus is again at the centre of a massive customer service breach, this time violating the privacy of a young healthcare worker ... Show more
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Update as cause: Optus provides first explanation for massive internet outage: Last week, customers of Australia's second-largest mobile provider were offline ...
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Aussies turn on banks after Optus chaos: Cash-loving Aussies are using Wednesday’s nationwide Optus outage as “proof” that becoming a completely cashless society ...
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Aussies turn on banks after Optus chaos
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What CIOs can learn from the Optus disaster: The total IT failure at the Australian telecommunications provider Optus shows how important reliability and ...
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What CIOs can learn from the Optus disaster
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How to avoid virtual shutout and stay connected during a web outage: You can’t make the EFTPOS machine work at your local cafe, but you can keep yourself from ...
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How to avoid virtual shutout and stay connected during a web outage
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Singtel-owned Optus says massive Australia outage was after software upgrade: SYDNEY - Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday (Nov 13) that a massive ...
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Singtel-owned Optus says massive Australia outage was after software ...
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CEO of Singtel-owned Optus resigns following network outage in Australia: The head of Australia's second-largest telco Optus resigned on Monday (Nov 20) ...
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CEO of Singtel-owned Optus resigns following network outage in Australia
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Optus is tonight in damage control after a day-long network outage caused mass disruption across the country. For one Sydney woman ... Show more
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Telcos required to report on cybersecurity measures in bid to prevent repeat of 2022 Optus hack
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Optus confirms it has paid cash as compensation to customers affected by nationwide outage
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Optus parent SingTel denies software upgrade as root cause for outage: (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, the parent of Australian telecoms ...
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Optus parent SingTel denies software upgrade as root cause for outage
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Australia beefs up cyber defences after major breaches: SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will give cyber health checks for small businesses, increase cyber law ...
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Australia beefs up cyber defences after major breaches
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Rate hikes punish mortgage holders, not big spenders: Resistant inflation numbers show that the Reserve Bank’s loan rate hikes punish the wrong spenders
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Rate hikes punish mortgage holders, not big spenders
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Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns after network outage: Optus parent company Singtel says ‘priority is about setting on a path of renewal for the benefit of ...
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Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns after network outage
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Sarah Hanson-Young says Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has shown leadership as she resigned as the CEO of Optus but called for strengthened rules and regulations ... Show more
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Australia news LIVE: Worst offenders face return to custody under terror-style laws; Optus searches for new CEO
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Australia news LIVE: Worst offenders face return to custody under ...
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Mark Gregory from RMIT says Australian technology companies have a tendency to employ people with legal or accounting backgrounds to CEO roles ... Show more