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Senate inquiry to interrogate whether cheap, out of date device caused outage

The inquiry will examine whether ageing equipment and weak industry oversight contributed to the outage that blocked hundreds of emergency calls.

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Greens senator and inquiry chair Sarah Hanson-Young has threatened a crackdown on telco giants responsible for multiple outages in the past few years.
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Senate inquiry to interrogate whether cheap, out of date device caused outage

Greens senator and inquiry chair Sarah Hanson-Young has threatened a crackdown on telco giants responsible for multiple outages in the past few years.

·City of Perth, Australia
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Senate inquiry to interrogate whether cheap, out-of-date device caused outage

Greens senator and inquiry chair Sarah Hanson-Young has threatened a crackdown on telco giants responsible for multiple outages in the past few years.

·North Sydney, Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald broke the news in North Sydney, Australia on Sunday, July 12, 2026.
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