Lawrence Wong and Anthony Albanese on deadly Optus outage and deepening defense ties

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Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus's emergency call number with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in a bilateral meeting held in Canberra on Wednesday (Oct 8). Two back-to-back outages of the emergency "000" number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia's second largest telecom operator. The outages occurred less than a fortnight apart and affected thousands, with the first glitch linked to four