Greens call for urgent review of Optus’ licence amidst yet another outage
Greens call for urgent review of Optus’ licence amidst yet another outage | Australian Greens Skip to main content Search Get Involved Join Donate Our plan Tax the 1% Tackle the cost of living Healthcare for all Fix the housing crisis Strong climate action Policy principles & aims Our team Federal MPs State/territory MPs Officeholders Media releases Take action Volunteer Donate Issues & campaigns Events Greens Shop Leave a bequest Our movement About the Greens Become a member Jobs Green Magazine All news Get Involved Join Donate Search Our plan Toggle Tax the 1% Tackle the cost of living Healthcare for all Fix the housing crisis Strong climate action Policy principles & aims Our team Toggle Federal MPs State/territory MPs Officeholders Media releases Take action Toggle Volunteer Donate Issues & campaigns Events Greens Shop Leave a bequest Our movement Toggle About the Greens Become a member Jobs Green Magazine All news Greens call for urgent review of Optus’ licence amidst yet another outage 2025-11-26 Quotes attributable to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Triple 0 service outage: “Optus has failed the Australian people again.
“There must be an urgent review of Optus’ licence. They are clearly not capable of providing this essential service and keeping Australians safe. “Big telcos continue to put profit over their obligation to safely deliver the Triple 0 service and Australians are sick of it.
“A key outstanding recommendation of the Bean Review is that it be mandated that customers can be transferred to another carrier for emergency calls when their network is down. This needs urgent action. “The minister needs to take control of this.
The regulator is failing to uphold the interests of the community. ACMA can not be trusted to carry out investigations on this on their own. “They are asleep at the wheel and have clearly demonstrated they are not up to the job of regulating the big telcos.
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