Telstra may have avoided meltdown by spending just thousands on a known problem
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-07-10 10:48 UTC+10:00
Section: Technology
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Tax & Budget, Technology
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The Telstra outage that cut hundreds of people off from Triple Zero this week was likely to have been caused by a server that had reached the end of its supported life almost a decade ago and was never replaced, despite newer devices costing less than $30,000.
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