Back-ups failed: Report into triple zero outage sparked by cable pit fire release

By Jennifer Duke
October 22 2018 - 8:00pm
THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: Fire damage at the Telstra cable pit east of Orange in May this year.
THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: Fire damage at the Telstra cable pit east of Orange in May this year.

More than 1400 calls to the triple zero emergency call service were unable to be connected during a Telstra network outage caused by damage to a cable pit near Orange.

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