{"id":1034724,"date":"2026-09-12T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034724"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:44:06","slug":"australias-optus-apologises-for-outage-that-disrupted-emergency-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/australias-optus-apologises-for-outage-that-disrupted-emergency-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Optus apologises for outage that disrupted emergency calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Optus, Australia&#8217;s No. 2 telecom carrier, on \u200bSaturday apologised a \u200bday after an outage on its network \u200bimpacted users across three states and disrupted some emergency services calls. <\/p>\n<p>The 76-minute technical glitch on Friday affected Optus voice calling services \u200cin parts \u2060of \u2060Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania states and the Northern Territory, with &#8220;some customers experienced \u200bintermittent call dropouts&#8221;, Optus said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely apologise to \u200bcustomers for the disruption,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Optus, Australia&#8217;s No. 2 telecom carrier, on \u200bSaturday apologised a \u200bday after an outage on its network \u200bimpacted users across three states and disrupted some emergency services calls. The 76-minute technical glitch on Friday affected Optus voice calling services \u200cin parts \u2060of \u2060Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania states and the Northern Territory, with &#8220;some customers experienced \u200bintermittent call dropouts&#8221;, Optus said in a statement. &#8220;We sincerely apologise to \u200bcustomers for the disruption,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034737,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034724\/revisions\/1034737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}