Irishman Stephen Rue has been charged with restoring Optus’ reputation with consumers and improving its services when he leaves the National Broadband Network to run the beleaguered telecommunications group.

Mr Rue, who attended the same Dublin university as Optus’ Irish chairman Paul O’Sullivan, replaces former Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, who resigned in November 2023 following criticism of the way she handled a national network outage last year and a previous cyberattack in 2022.