TOKYO – Premium “Sato Nishiki” cherries from the north-eastern Japan prefecture of Yamagata fetched record prices at the year’s first auctions on Jan 5, including 1.8 million yen (S$14,800) for a box ...

An independent report released by Optus shines a light on a serious issue with our modern mobile-reliant communications systems. (Getty) Most alarmingly, the report shines a light on a serious issue ...

An independent review of an outage of Optus’ emergency call network in September suggested shifting call centre operations outside of Australia contributed to delays in responding to failures in its ...

Optus’ decision to outsource its mobile networks and call centres offshore contributed to delays in detecting a fatal Triple Zero outage, and the telecoms group should speed up plans to bring ...

Optus commissioned Dr Kerry Schott to lead the review after hundreds of emergency calls failed to go through during the outage, with two deaths directly linked to the failure. Reacting to the findings ...

The review examined Optus’s September 18 outage that has since been linked to two deaths, and urged the Singaporean-owned company to consider whether an overhaul of its board was needed to improve its ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Optus workers face the sack or financial penalties after an independent review exposed a litany of failures behind September’s deadly ...

[SINGAPORE] An independent review into Optus’ major September outage has uncovered gaps in process, accountability, and escalation and information protocols. The Sep 18 incident when Triple Zero calls ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - An inquiry into Optus’s emergency services telephone number outage in Australia, which resulted in two deaths, revealed a series of failures during a firewall upgrade that left ...

The nation's second-largest telco failed to adequately execute a service upgrade on September 18. The misstep has been linked to two deaths. Experienced executive Kerry Schott was tasked with getting ...