Rue and Berejiklian Will Survive, but Optus Customers Won’t Wait

Even if heads roll at Optus, we may not know much about their executive payouts

Amid renewed calls for Optus executives to face the sack over September’s Triple Zero outage, what are the rules about disclosing executive payouts in Australia?

‘Step down’: Call for Optus CEO’s head

Calls are growing for Optus boss Stephen Rue to resign as one MP puts the executive on blast for “letting Australians down”.

Rue and Berejiklian will survive, but Optus customers won’t wait

Optus’ top brass had a rare chance to rebuild trust after a catastrophic network failure and multiple deaths. Instead, they dug the company deeper into crisis.

'What on earth?': Optus defends fatal outage response at Senate inquiry

Under-fire Optus executives have copped a parliamentary bashing for their response to a triple-zero outage linked to the deaths of three people. The proceedings have immediately zeroed in on CEO Stephen Rue, who is being pressured to explain a significant delay in reporting the fatalities to both the government and the regulator.

Optus boss resists calls to resign after triple-zero outage linked to deaths

‘I firmly believe that another change of leader at this time is not what Optus needs or what our customers need.’

Optus takes back control of mobile networks from Nokia

Optus CEO Stephen Rue, grilled over Triple Zero failures, said the telco’s board had approved a plan to reassert control over its networks.