Federal government to investigate 'particularly concerning' Optus outage

Around ten million customers were affected by yesterday's network outage, which took more than 12 hours before services were eventually restored. Telecommunications Minister Michelle Rowland said in a statement that the effects of the outage were "concerning". In particular, the failure of emergency calls. The Australian government announced today that it would investigate the outage.

Gestern kam es zu einem Netzausfall bei Optus. Source: AAP / Bianca De Marchi

Last year, the company made headlines when hackers stole sensitive data from millions of Australians.