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Telecommunications industry expert Paul Budde has claimed Optus will not turn to former New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian as its new CEO due to the "baggage" she has from her time in politics.
The Singapore Telecommunications-owned company had recently war-gamed scenarios in which the routers that direct voice and internet data failed in entire states, but it never expected a nationwide shutdown because it had alternate connections built into its network.
More than 10 million Australians were hit by the network blackout at the Singapore Telecommunications-owned (SingTel) telecom firm on November 8, frustrating customers and raising wider concerns about its telecommunication infrastructure.
The Optus chief will face some tough questions about the company’s poor handling of last week’s catastrophic network outage when she appears before a Senate inquiry.
Optus Outage: Optus said in a statement that an initial investigation found the company's network was affected by "changes to routing information from an international peering network" early that morning, "following a routine software upgrade".