Optus suffers widespread outage across Australia

Optus experienced an Australia-wide blackout across its mobile and landline networks for most of Wednesday, November 8. Service has now been restored.The company said the problem was a network fault, but did not elaborate.

The outage impacted 10 million customers across the country. The Australian government has launched an investigation.

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