Australia’s Optus vows to cooperate with probes amid outrage over emergency call services outage

Optus, Australia’s No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Saturday it would cooperate with official investigations after three people died following a technical failure that disrupted emergency call services for 13 hours.

Amid a growing outcry surrounding the embattled company, two of the dead were identified as an eight-week-old boy and a 68-year-old woman, police in South Australia said. The third was a 74-year-old man in Western Australia, media have reported.