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Police conduct welfare checks after dozens of Triple Zero calls fail due to Optus outage
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (397+ words) Updated September 11, 2026 — 10:32pm,first published 9:05pm Dozens of Triple Zero calls struggled to connect to the Telstra national emergency line because of an Optus outage on Friday, Triple Zero Victoria says. Victoria Police said it was completing welfare checks on impacted callers…...
New law to force social media giants to allow users to opt out of algorithms
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (40+ words) SMH.com.au Social media giants will be forced to allow Australian users to opt out of algorithms under a new proposal. September 8, 2026 — 4:40pm...
Telstra had no shortage of warnings before its outage. How did it miss them?
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) September 6, 2026 — 2:49pm Last week, Telstra published a review into its major outage in July. While many commentators were focused on the coverage of chief executive Vicki Brady being on holiday when disaster struck, or whether China was behind the outage, the…...
$100m fine threat: Govt puts social media giants on notice
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (64+ words) The Courier Mail $100m fine threat: Govt puts social media giants on notice The federal government could hit social media giants with fines of more than $100m if they don’t prevent the sharing of harmful content, and is set to give users…...
Telstra’s only two timing experts had been sent home to rest before network fell over
1+ week, 4+ day ago (698+ words) September 2, 2026 — 10:47am The only two Telstra engineers with deep expertise in the system that failed in July had been sent home on mandatory rest by the time the national mobile outage they had unwittingly triggered took hold, an external investigation has…...
Rogers customer stranded in call-queue hell over vanishing phone deal
1+ week, 4+ day ago (726+ words) 'This is a huge and growing problem,' said Matt Hatfield, executive director of digital advocacy group OpenMedia OTTAWA — Attempts to redeem a $0 iPhone promotion were an exercise in frustration for one Rogers Wireless customer — not to mention a cautionary tale…...
U.S. GAO - Telecommunications: GSA Should Assess Agencies’ Effectiveness at Preventing Service Disruptions
1+ week, 5+ day ago (410+ words) The General Services Administration is responsible for ensuring that federal agencies have access to telecommunications services. GSA recently managed 221 agencies’ transitions from expired telecommunications contracts to the replacement contract. This transition was delayed by over 3 years, and agencies had to…...
‘Crazy Canberra ideology’ on AI data centres frustrates Queenslanders
2+ week, 3+ day ago (10+ words) news24.com.au...