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Politics latest: Telcos to pay for future outages: inquiry

A Senate inquiry into the November 8 Optus outage has issued seven recommendations addressing the telco's 'manifestly inadequate' response.

Jack Newman
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7:00AMSeptember 27, 2024.
Updated 8:03PMSeptember 27, 2024
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The network shutdown on November 8 last year lasted for 12 hours, affecting businesses, transport, banks, healthcare providers and emergency services.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw
The network shutdown on November 8 last year lasted for 12 hours, affecting businesses, transport, banks, healthcare providers and emergency services.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

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