SingTel, Optus CEOs to Meet Australia Minister Over Fatal Outage

The heads of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and its Optus division will meet with Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells next week as the phone company struggles with the fallout of a network outage that resulted in multiple deaths.

SingTel Group CEO Yuen Kuan Moon will attend the meeting in Sydney alongside Optus CEO Stephen Rue and Chairman John Arthur, the company said in a statement. SingTel will fully co-operate with the Australian government and authorities about the network issue, it said.