Michael Sainsbury
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179 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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Now, I've spoken to an engineer at one of the other networks and he said, look, the triple O, when they've got a checklist of network upgrades, triple O is absolutely the top of the list and it should be the first thing that's checked and double checked before anything happens.
And that didn't happen.
Most people probably know it's the second biggest telco in Australia.
It's the second biggest mobile network.
It's owned by Singapore Telecommunications, so it's not a publicly listed company in Australia.
And the Singapore Telecoms is owned by the Singapore government.
So ultimately, Singapore's responsible for everything that happens at Optus.
But this is not the first time this has happened with Optus.
This happened with Optus two years ago.
There were 18 recommendations handed down.
That process hasn't been finished properly.
Only about two-thirds of those recommendations have been implemented, and some of the key ones had not been implemented.
And then a year before that outage, they had that dreadful data breach where the data of about nine million people was stolen.
But yeah, Optus now has got very much a reputation of being a company that is kind of making some big technical fails every couple of years.
Stephen Roo is the CEO.
He was brought in about nine months ago.
They got rid of the last CEO who was in charge of those last two disasters.
He came from NBN, so he's pretty familiar with telecommunications networks and he's pretty familiar with dealing with government.
So it's kind of a dent in his record early on.
I want to offer a sincere apology to...
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