Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin reveals carrying spare Telstra and Vodafone sim cards in case of future outages. Senate committee grills Bayer Rosmarin and company's head of networks on outage and communication to customers.
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin faces a Senate committee over the company’s response to the national outage last week. Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has told a Senate hearing she now carries both a Telstra and a Vodafone sim card with her in case of another outage like the one that took down Optus last week. Bayer Rosmarin said she previously carried a spare Vodafone sim in case of an outage, but now also carries a spare Telstra sim.
Bayer Rosmarin and the company’s head of networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam, faced a two-hour grilling before a Senate committee on Friday, chaired by the Greens communications spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young. Questions explored the outage itself as well as the company’s communication to customers and what will be done to prevent it happening again. Bayer Rosmarin said she did not speak to the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, until four hours into the outage last week
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