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'Unacceptable': Experts say Optus coverage outage could happen again (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Give them the option; they can either build out the capacity to support each others customers when their network fails, or they have to double their core network infra and admin costs with internal redundancies... If private enterprises can't be trusted to provide critical infrastructure and services, they don't deserve to own, operate, or profit from them, and should be nationalised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is like in the 1990s when cable was being rolled out. OptusVision was being (literally) rolled out in established neighbourhoods which were already serviced by the BigPong Cabal.

Meanwhile, newer suburbs had nothing except twisted copper ADSL2 until the NBN (and their competing Fibre Networks) started getting rolled out in the late 2010s.