Chief executive Vicki Brady says the cull will affect 2800 jobs and save the company $350 million.
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.
Heartfelt thanks to those officials,shopping centre staff,and individuals,who confronted the attacker or helped or tended to his victims.
The failures of Victoria’s emergency call-taking service during the pandemic have been exposed as it emerged other states acted to prepare.
CEO Vicki Brady says basic errors were behind the outage that left more than 100 Australians unable to contact triple zero,including one man who passed away.
Australia’s elite boards are still littered with time-served directors who are part of an entitlement club of similarly minded seat warmers.
The government has written to the chief executives of Telstra,Optus and TPG amid fears nearly 1 million Australians may be left unable to contact triple zero.
Karin Stark has long warned it was only a matter of time until someone died unable to call an ambulance. Now her own family has become the story.
Thodey is best known as the former boss of the telco giant and currently chairs Ramsay Health Care and technology company Xero.
Telstra,TPG and Optus are on a rare unity ticket fighting against proposed changes they say will lead to more SMS scams.
Vicki Brady said a “technical incident” early on Friday meant 148 calls weren’t immediately transferred – including one call-out for a person who later died.