Telstra’s only two timing experts had been sent home to rest before network fell over
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-09-02 10:47 UTC+10:00
Section: Technology
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Technology
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Snippet:
The only two Telstra engineers with deep expertise in the system that failed in July had been sent home on mandatory rest by the time the national mobile outage they had unwittingly triggered took hold, an external investigation has found.
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