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Telstra identifies software and design documentation failures as root cause of national network outage
Guardian WorldLO·AU·about 21 hours ago
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady will testify before a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra following a nationwide outage that disrupted emergency services, payment systems, and rail operations. The inquiry aims to determine the root cause of the failure and assess the adequacy of current telecommunications resilience protocols.
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Telstra has confirmed a nationwide network outage was caused by a missing software update and an undocumented design change. The incident, which disrupted critical services across Australia, has prompted a parliamentary inquiry where Telstra's CEO will testify. Confidence in the root cause identification is high.