‘People could have lost their lives’: Telstra’s apologies fail to quell outage anger

Fallout over the telco’s latest national outage continues, with executives called to front a snap meeting of a triple-zero parliamentary inquiryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was a missed message on Microsoft Teams and a voicemail from Telstra’s head of operations that brought the chief executive’s European summer holiday with family to a grinding halt.Vicki Brady returned to Australia on Friday to face a media firestorm over Telstra’s national mobile outage, and on Saturday, it was announced the company would soon face a grilling in the Senate. Continue reading...