{"id":963825,"date":"2025-09-24T08:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963825"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:59:20","slug":"australias-optus-appoints-kerry-schott-to-lead-independent-review-into-triple-zero-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/australias-optus-appoints-kerry-schott-to-lead-independent-review-into-triple-zero-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Optus appoints Kerry Schott to lead independent review into Triple Zero outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optus, Australia&#8217;s no. 2 telecom carrier, said on Wednesday it appointed Kerry Schott to lead an independent review into last week&#8217;s technical failure that disrupted Triple Zero emergency calls and has been linked to four deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Optus last week said a deviation from standard procedures during a network firewall upgrade triggered a 13-hour outage that disrupted emergency call services, an incident linked to four deaths and that potentially affected around 600 customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optus, Australia&#8217;s no. 2 telecom carrier, said on Wednesday it appointed Kerry Schott to lead an independent review into last week&#8217;s technical failure that disrupted Triple Zero emergency calls and has been linked to four deaths. Optus last week said a deviation from standard procedures during a network firewall upgrade triggered a 13-hour outage that disrupted emergency call services, an incident linked to four deaths and that potentially affected around 600 customers.<\/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-963825","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\/963825","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=963825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}