Lawrence Wong and Anthony Albanese on deadly Optus outage and deepening defense ties | Video
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus's emergency call number with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in a bilateral meeting held in Canberra on Wednesday (Oct 8). Two back-to-back outages of the emergency "000" number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia's second largest telecom operator. The outages occurred less than a fortnight apart and affected thousands, with the first glitch linked to four deaths because customers were unable to get timely aid. Mr Wong said he expected Optus and Singtel to act responsibly, comply fully with Australian laws and cooperate with the ongoing inquiry.
Mr Albanese and Mr Wong also entered into an agreement that they said would deepen the defense ties between the two countries.
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus's emergency call number with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in a bilateral meeting held in Canberra on Wednesday (Oct 8). Two back-to-back outages of the emergency "000" number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia's second largest telecom operator. The outages occurred less than a fortnight apart and affected thousands, with the first glitch linked to four deaths because customers were unable to get timely aid. Mr Wong said he expected Optus and Singtel to act responsibly, comply fully with Australian laws and cooperate with the ongoing inquiry.
Mr Albanese and Mr Wong also entered into an agreement that they said would deepen the defense ties between the two countries.