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SBS On the Money: What does the latest Optus outage say about Australia's telecommunications infrastructure?

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SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with telecommunications analyst Paul Budde to find out what needs to be done to improve the nation's infrastructure as Optus' systems go down impacting around 10 million people, plus the latest on the sharemarket with Luke Laretive from Seneca Financial Solutions.

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SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with telecommunications analyst Paul Budde to find out what needs to be done to improve the nation's infrastructure as Optus' systems go down impacting around 10 million people, plus the latest on the sharemarket with Luke Laretive from Seneca Financial Solutions.

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