Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the company has not identifed the root cause of the outage affecting millions of Australians, while there is "no indication" it has been caused by a cyber attack. Follow live.
As a techie in this sort of work (Not for Optus), I can only commiserate with the engineers running around trying to restore this. I've never had an incident make the news, though that's more due to luck than anything.
Coming up on 12 hours downtime, now. This is costing millions. And that's before we get to part where retail customers leave over this and cost them more.
"I dunno....Look it's nearly 4pm. I only had a sandwich for lunch and I've got to get down the shops before knock-off. Tell you what, let's come back tomorrow morning and make a fresh start of it hey? Meet you here 8am sharp!"
This doesn't just affect Optus subscribers. I use Amaysim which is technically part of Optus but functionally separate besides using the same towers, so this affected me too. Our train communication systems broke down which affected everyone regardless of who you're with, and plenty of shops eftpos machines went down (if they were powered by Optus in some way).