Australia’s Optus apologises for outage that disrupted emergency calls

SYDNEY: Optus, Australia’s No. 2 telecom carrier, on ​Saturday apologised a ​day after an outage on its network ​impacted users across three states and disrupted some emergency services calls.

The 76-minute technical glitch on Friday affected Optus voice calling services ‌in parts ⁠of ⁠Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania states and the Northern Territory, with “some customers experienced ​intermittent call dropouts”, Optus said in a statement.

“We sincerely apologise to ​customers for the disruption,” the statement said.