{"id":963474,"date":"2025-09-23T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963474"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:28:58","slug":"australia-will-overhaul-telecommunications-after-optus-emergency-call-failure-linked-to-4-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/australia-will-overhaul-telecommunications-after-optus-emergency-call-failure-linked-to-4-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia will overhaul telecommunications after Optus emergency call failure linked to 4 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country&#8217;s telecommunications industry after a major company&#8217;s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was linked to four deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Optus, Australia&#8217;s second-largest telecom company, blamed a &#8220;technical failure&#8221; on Thursday last week for 624 calls failing to connect to emergency services. While Americans call &#8220;9-1-1&#8221; in an emergency, Australians call &#8220;0-0-0.&#8221; Someone died in four of those Australian emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country&#8217;s telecommunications industry after a major company&#8217;s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was linked to four deaths. Optus, Australia&#8217;s second-largest telecom company, blamed a &#8220;technical failure&#8221; on Thursday last week for 624 calls failing to connect to emergency services. While Americans call &#8220;9-1-1&#8221; in an emergency, Australians call &#8220;0-0-0.&#8221; Someone died in four of those Australian emergencies.<\/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-963474","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\/963474","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=963474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}