SingTel Faces Another Optus Crisis With Fatal Network Outage

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. faces a fresh crisis at its Australian division Optus after the government started an investigation into an emergency call outage that resulted in multiple deaths.

Last week’s network failure follows an Australia-wide outage at Optus in November 2023 that affected millions of customers — including some who were unable to make emergency calls. That blunder cost the job of Optus’ then-boss, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.