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Optus fined $66 million for 'appalling' conduct in sales to telecom's customers in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus 100 million Australian dollars ($66 million) Wednesday for unconscionable conduct selling services to hundreds of ...

Optus chasing "near real-time" data as regulatory pressure looms

Optus is using Confluent's Oracle CDC and LogMiner with Kafka to pull 400 data tables into its Databricks analytics platform ...
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Two senior Optus executives depart as scrutiny over recent major triple-0 outage continues

Optus has confirmed two of its senior executives will step down as it continues to face scrutiny over a recent major triple-0 outage. In a statement, the telco announced the "planned retirement" of ...
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Ericsson and Optus First Australian Indoor Fusion Deployment

Ericsson and Optus Australia’s first Indoor Fusion 8828 deployment, improving indoor 4G and 5G coverage with Ericsson’s Radio ...
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Singtel’s Optus appoints non-executive director John Arthur as chairman of the board

Arthur will replace outgoing chairman, Paul O'Sullivan, who has chosen to step down after a decade in the role, says Optus in its Aug 25 statement. Singtel's Australia subsidiary Optus has appointed ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Government instructs Optus to bring in 'external party' to review systems

Communications Minister Anika Wells has instructed Optus to bring in an "independent and external party" during a meeting with the heads of the embattled telco and its Singaporean parent company, ...
New York Post

Australian telecom giant Optus hit by cyberattack, personal info at risk

Optus, the Australian unit of telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications STEL.SI, said it was investigating the unauthorised access of customer details including home addresses, driver’s licence and ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Optus wears blame but government needs to explain how it handled early advice

For a department carrying the name "communications", Wednesday was not a shining example of clarity in message delivery. Senators from across the political spectrum were left frustrated and without ...

Optus responds to major nationwide outage affecting millions of Australian customers

EARLIER: The Optus CEO has responded to the nationwide outage affecting millions of customers, saying the telco doesn’t know ...
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Optus buys Reef

Singapore Telecommunications subsidiary Optus has acquired fibre-optic cable network operator Reef Networks in a deal valued at around AU$93 million.Optus said acquiring Reef -- which owns a cable ...
The Conversation

The Optus chief was right to quit but real change is unlikely at the telco until bigger issues are fixed

Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin bowed to the inevitable on Monday and resigned as chief executive of Australia’s second largest telecommunications company. Why inevitable? Poor ...
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Singtel’s Optus Names Rue as CEO as It Seeks to Rebuild Trust

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.'s Australian phone carrier Optus appointed Stephen Rue as chief executive officer with effect from November, it said in a bourse filing Monday. Rue has ...