A federal government investigation and Senate inquiry will look at Optus' nationwide network outage on Wednesday.
Optus will offer customers extra data after the network suffered a 13-hour outage on Wednesday, impacting more than 10 million people Australians both locally and overseas. Eligible postpaid customers will be able to add 200GB of extra data to their plans, while eligible prepaid customers will be able to access unlimited data on weekends until the end of the year.
" She said the failure highlighted that "no network is immune" to large-scale interruptions and it is critical to improve post-outage processes. Further announcements around the terms of reference and next steps will be made in due course.  Optus will also face a Senate inquiry over the outage, after a motion moved by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young passed on Thursday.
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