Multiple people have died after a botched Optus network upgrade on Thursday prevented around 600 emergency calls to Triple Zero across Australia. The deaths currently linked to the outage – which ...

Making a call to triple zero (000) for a life threatening or time-critical emergency is something most of us learn how to do when we first use a phone. But do you know how a Triple Zero call actually ...

Triple Zero (000) call centres are seeing an increase in "absurd" calls, ranging from lost television remote controls to ducks crossing the road. Acting Superintendent Graeme Barry said of the 400,000 ...

Analysis: The Optus network outage that occurred on September 18 this year led to a failure of hundreds of Triple Zero calls, and tragically two deaths where people had attempted to make Triple Zero ...

Customers of Optus and Telstra have been warned some Samsung devices won't call triple-zero in certain circumstances. Both providers issued updates on Wednesday stating that, in the rare event their ...

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will establish a dedicated team for managing issues related triple zero calling issues. The regulator has told parliament’s triple zero inquiry ...

A Senate committee is reviewing the circumstances of an Optus outage that prevented people from calling Triple Zero in September last year, leading to several deaths. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young ...

The Albanese government has triggered a review of the laws governing the emergency services network almost two years after it was urged to do so to restore public trust lost during a 2023 outage that ...