Optus is investigating the cause of Wednesday’s nationwide outage.
Experts say telcos have been cost cutting, and have not properly safeguarded systems
They say the government should legislate redundancies in major telco systems
[Industry expert Mark] Gregory said Optus and Telstra have likely concluded that building highly advanced safeguards to their infrastructure and software is too expensive and have been allowed by the government to prioritise profit over the reliability of the service.
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I think re-nationalising telecommunications (land line, mobile and nbn) is looking pretty attractive. Critical national infrastructure that serves the whole population should never be privatised and run with capitalist objectives.
