{"id":974815,"date":"2025-11-19T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974815"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:30:53","slug":"australias-tpg-telecom-links-customers-death-to-outdated-samsung-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/19\/australias-tpg-telecom-links-customers-death-to-outdated-samsung-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s TPG Telecom links customer&#8217;s death to outdated Samsung phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s TPG Telecom on Tuesday said a customer died after their Samsung mobile phone running out-of-date software failed to connect with the Triple Zero emergency services, and there was no network outage at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The incident comes two months after two back-to-back emergency call outages at Optus, the country&#8217;s second-biggest carrier, affected thousands of people and were linked to four deaths, sparking a parliamentary inquiry into the Singtel-owned company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s TPG Telecom on Tuesday said a customer died after their Samsung mobile phone running out-of-date software failed to connect with the Triple Zero emergency services, and there was no network outage at the time. The incident comes two months after two back-to-back emergency call outages at Optus, the country&#8217;s second-biggest carrier, affected thousands of people and were linked to four deaths, sparking a parliamentary inquiry into the Singtel-owned company.<\/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-974815","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\/974815","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=974815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}