We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia. The concept is simple—if you need aid from police, fire, or ambulance, you ...

Making a call to triple zero (000) for a life threatening or time-critical emergency is something most of us learn how to do when we first use a phone. But do you know how a Triple Zero call actually ...

Australian telco Optus said on Wednesday it had suffered an emergency call outage near Melbourne impacting around 14,000 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country's telecommunications industry after a major company’s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was ...

An Optus outage has left more than 14,000 customers in Victoria’s south-east unable to make calls or use mobile data, with ...

Australia's TPG Telecom on Tuesday said a customer died after their Samsung mobile phone running out-of-date software failed to connect with the Triple Zero emergency services, and there was no ...

Australia’s second-largest operator Optus has witnessed a significant outage on Tuesday (November 25). As reported by Reuters ...

A deep dive into Australia’s triple-0 service beset with fatal flaws reveals opaque management, private contractors and retro technology struggling to cope in the mobile phone era. The embattled telco ...