Optus outage paralyses Australia

Australia’s second mobile network operator suffered a lengthy outage, which affected infrastructure as well as individual subscribers.
Communication from Optus, which reportedly suffered a complete network outage for around 12 hours earlier today, has been limited. The only information we could find on its website were a few updates claiming incremental restoration of services. Possibly most damaging for Optus is the concession that people can’t even use the 000 emergency services nu