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

submitted 1 year ago by MHLoppy2@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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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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[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NBN should take over wireless networks. Telstra starts at $62 - which is far too much especially since everyone has wifi most of the day, and nobody else offers reliable service.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would hazard that if you're going to move something to monopoly control: don't make it for-profit like the NBN is run. Make it a proper government service.

(The NBN's debt has to be paid off by the NBN, so they have to try and keep finding ways of paying it off. As opposed to just making it normal government debt and running the service as best as you can for the people)

EDIT: to quote the article itself:

Mr 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.

^ I'd be worried that putting it in the (existing) NBN's hands wouldn't necessarily address that.