• Optus is investigating the cause of Wednesday’s nationwide outage.

  • Experts say telcos have been cost cutting, and have not properly safeguarded systems

  • They say the government should legislate redundancies in major telco systems

[Industry expert Mark] Gregory said Optus and Telstra have likely concluded that building highly advanced safeguards to their infrastructure and software is too expensive and have been allowed by the government to prioritise profit over the reliability of the service.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Give them the option; they can either build out the capacity to support each others customers when their network fails, or they have to double their core network infra and admin costs with internal redundancies… If private enterprises can’t be trusted to provide critical infrastructure and services, they don’t deserve to own, operate, or profit from them, and should be nationalised.