Source : Perth Now news
The anticipated findings of a federal inquiry into triple-0 outages across Australia have been delayed by more than five weeks.
The Environment and Communications References Committee were set to hand down their recommendations on August 7.
However, committee chair Sarah Hanson-Young confirmed in a Friday statement that the findings had been delayed.
Instead, the report will be delivered on September 14.
“Given the massive Telstra failure in the last month, the committee requires more time to consider our next steps,” Senator Hanson-Young said.
The inquiry was originally established after a major Optus outage on September 14, 2025 left hundreds of Australians unable to call triple-0.
The disruption was linked to four deaths.
A series of escalation failures within Optus on the night of the outage were the subject of intense scrutiny by the committee, which also grilled the media watchdog and department officials on their respective roles in the incident.
Optus chief executive Stephen Rue described the disruption as a “unique circumstance” but apologised “deeply” to those affected, saying it was “unacceptable”.
Last month, a Telstra network outage was also wrapped into the probe after the disruption blocked access to triple-zero, as well as impacting businesses and transport.
A snap Senate hearing revealed maintenance work caused the system’s clocks to revert to 2006 and subsequently triggered the outage on July 7.
Though the disruption affected 8.8 million customers, the company’s chief executive Vicky Brady told the committee that not all of these people would get compensation.
