Australia’s second-largest telco is priming for a much-needed reboot after suffering the nation’s worst data breaches and telecommunications outages.
Communications minister Michelle Rowland says she will accept all recommendations from a review into the effect of last year’s national Optus outage on the triple-zero system after lives were put at risk.
The departure comes after an outage that affected 10 million customers,and while the company is still scrambling to find a new CEO.
In a development the communications minister calls “deeply disturbing”,Optus says more than 10 times the number of emergency calls than it initially claimed failed to connect during the November 8 outage.
Whoever is appointed Optus’ next CEO will need years to rebuild the telco’s reputation,insiders say,as the Senate announces a second hearing into the mass outage.
The end of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s tenure as chief executive at Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company can be traced back to one word.
What remains surprising is how often companies and chief executives fail to learn lessons from past crises even though corporate Australia is littered with them.
O’Sullivan,who has worked with Optus for three decades,said he won’t be following Kelly Bayer Rosmarin out the door,but the decision is Singtel’s to make.
White Ribbon’s national director Allan Ball quietly resigned last month but the embattled charity doesn’t want to talk about it.
Last Friday’s Senate hearing had all the signs of a final act for Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin,with all eyes now turning to her replacement.
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin consigned herself to the out tray with a lacklustre performance before a Senate committee.