Australia's Optus suffers call outage, vandalism blamed

Reuters
2025.11.27 07:35
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Optus, an Australian telco owned by SingTel, experienced a service outage near Melbourne affecting 14,000 users. The outage, caused by vandalism cutting a fibre cable, initially raised concerns about emergency call disruptions. However, Optus later confirmed no emergency calls failed. Services were restored by 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday.