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PoliticsNow: Optus offers compo as cause of chaos revealed

A 'network event' triggered a 'cascading failure' across Optus networks, taking more than one third of the nation offline on Wednesday, with the Telco offering customers 200GB of extra data in compensation.

Grace Macpherson, Joseph Lam, Jared Lynch and Rosie Lewis
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5:45AMNovember 09, 2023.
Updated 6:41PMNovember 09, 2023
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Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin described the fault as one of 'multiple layers' in which a network event triggered a 'cascading failure'. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin described the fault as one of 'multiple layers' in which a network event triggered a 'cascading failure'. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone

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