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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Interesting explanation about what really went wrong with Optus last week.

The short version: it looks like Optus doesn't control its own core network. Its parent company Singapore Telecom does. Optus just resells it.

Which is why Optus' CEO was so vague about what the issue actually was: she was protecting her bosses in Singapore.

https://www.channelnews.com.au/excluseoptus-services-failure-was-on-a-netork-operated-by-singtel-claim-insiders/

#Optus #OptusOutage @technology #telco

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[-] phil_stevens@mastodon.nz 5 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @technology I could have told you that, and I do DevOps from NZ. I had to trace a strange network fault for an Australian client once and found that it was all SingTel.

[-] danielbowen@aus.social 4 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @technology How reliable is this web site? Should we be concerned that they can't spell the word "Exclusive"?

[-] zl2tod@mastodon.online 3 points 1 year ago

@danielbowen @ajsadauskas @technology
I *think* it was spun out of ComputerWorld.
The author's bio is reasonably impressive.
Yet this is my favourite part:

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

They still put that in employment contracts?

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I suspected this was the case the moment I heard about it and the length of time it took to fix it. Typical outage for stuff managed out of SE Asia.

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