Trains and emergency calls affected after major outage at Australia's largest telecoms company

WIRE — A major outage at Australias largest telecommunications company has led to cancelled train services, left thousands of customers without mobile coverage, and sparked an investigation into emergency calls that were not connected. Telstras chief financial officer Michael Ackland apologised for the issue which began at 04:30 local time on Wednesday and affected some mobile calls Source

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