Photos taken from around the country have revealed many Aussies’ response to Wednesday’s Optus outage, as customers leave the embattled telco in droves.
Off the back of the telco’s devastating data breach a little over a year ago, which affected as many as 9.7 million Australians, Optus had little room for another huge failure.In fact, it appeared Wednesday’s outage was the final straw for many Optus customers.
“Ask the people who switched to Telstra today. The lines were HUGE at Highpoint Telstra,” added another. “I need to contact my parents as my daughter is with them and I need to co-ordinate pick-up times. Could someone visit them so that we can sort out arrangements?” she wrote.
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