It does not matter ttbn, there is a fault floating around there
somewhere and it will only be fixed with someone on a terminal or a soldering iron in hand.
No point making a fuss about that someone died, that does not help
at all.
If you can't get through look up the local police station call them.

If you are talking about a technical fault, it doesn't exist without human incompetence. The fault is always with the weak human link.

The human disaster will get worse, with universities handing out useless pieces of paper to people who should never have been near a university. It will be even worse because of Artificial Intelligence.

The Optus CEO looks and sounds like an idiot: ergo, he is an idiot. And, a shiny-faced grinning Chinaman of an executive from Singapore is not going to help. Most people now making decisions in industry and in government, are not up to their jobs. Some, as in the Optus case, are directly responsible for people's deaths. Don't tell me it doesn't matter. And why bother to start the thread if it doesn't matter?

In most subjects I agree with ttbn, but in this case there is probably
no one to blame. A condition has changed a component has failed,
perhaps a component made in Taiwon, or a change to some obscure bit
of software used to generate the program and the writer of the program
will not have known about it anyway as it was in the future.
Just think about all the lives that were saved because how fast 000
can organise to get help on site.
I have not heard that the fault is still live, so maybe they fixed it
or the conditions that cause the error has not reoccurred and it is
just lying in wait to jump out and bite them on the bum.
So every time you use a complicated bit of software, booking a flight
paying a bill, just give a silent thanks to those many technics
keeping the show on the road.

That the Optus problem affects SA, WA, and NT doesn't make it a problem for communications minister Anika Wells, who has fled to New York to spruik Australia's online censorship mania, as though Australia is a big deal in the rest of the world, although it can't provide a decent emergency phone system for half of the country - for the second time in two years, under the same Albanese Labor government.

Surely, it has to be trump's fault ? For crying out loud, these hit-ups happen, fault or accident !
Get over it ! Want a life of 100% safety ? Good luck !

The Optus CEO has now blamed Indians for the 000 problem.

These pesky Indians pop up in many situations adversely affecting Australia - particularly where they have been given what would once have been Australian jobs. Perhaps it is a communication problem - in the actual communications industry itself.

Indian academic, Surjeet Dhanji reckons that Indian immigrants speak better English than 50% of Australians.

Perhaps. It's just a pity that their thick accents often make their English impossible to understand.

The good lady also suggests that ‘white’ Australians need to be educated about how to integrate Indian migrants. Look, listen and learn, people.

Another Indian academic, Dr Eshan Arya, announced that mass immigration was ‘not’ causing the housing crisis, and a businessman, Sudhir Arya, gave the tedious and incorrect lecture about us all being immigrants.

All sponsored by the Indian Sun, a “leading” magazine.

Another of the band, Ms. Bina Shah, a ‘migration and education agent’ correctly said that they were allowed to come here, (but) “we have not come as pushed the door and entered”. Exercising English better than 50% of us Australians?

Huh?

“... so Australian government or multicultural side has to also coach the local Australians,” Ms Shah continued in her “excellent” English.

Dhanji said that she was “absolutely right”, and demonstrated her brilliant English by uttering, “We need to also educate the Anglo Caucasian population on, you know, who are they fighting against?”

Huh?

She also alluded that they were “skilled” migrants, when statistics show that very few immigrants to Australia are skilled ( about 8%), and Indians seem to be taxi drivers and dominant in logistics, as I have noted they are in Malaysia.

The good doctor announced that Indians don't have ‘ethnic enclaves’. 'No silos'.

A very strange comment from the Sun journalist ( Indian) was that she experienced more racism (than here) in Delhi! What? Are Indians racist to Indians? Or am I not understanding the excellent English that they reckon they have.