Australian regulator sues Google over anti-competitive Search dealsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia Pacific reached "understandings" with Telstra and Optus between ...
Telecom major Singtel confirms no intention to divest Australian telco OptusSingtel, majority-owned by Singapore sovereign investor Temasek, in March denied an AFR report that it was offloading Optus to Canada's Bro...
Singtel shares fall more than 1% after Optus stake sale reportsShares of Singtel were last down 0.8%, after sliding as much as 1.6% earlier in the session. The shares rose nearly 4% on Wednesday.
Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outageThe Singapore Telecommunications-owned company had recently war-gamed scenarios in which the routers that direct voice and internet data fa...
Optus parent Singtel says safety systems, not routine upgrade, caused outageMore than 10 million Australians were hit by the network blackout at the Singapore Telecommunications-owned (SingTel) telecom firm on Novem...
Australia to investigate Optus outage as customers seek compensationMore than 10 million Australians, 40% of the population, were hit by the 12-hour network blackout at the nation's No. 2 telco firm for much...
Chaos in Australia as internet service provider Optus blacks outFor millions of Australians who could not pay for goods, book rides, get medical care or even make phone calls, a nine-hour near-total serv...
Major data breach at Australia's top health insurer MedibankThe company did not say how many of its 4 million customers were likely to have been affected but warned the number was likely to rise. The...
Singtel's second unit faces cyber attack weeks after Optus data breachThe breach at Optus, Australia's second-largest mobile operator, late last month compromised data of up to 10 million customers, triggering...
Optus hack: Australia updates telecom law to protect dataThe changes to Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and other providers to better coordinate with financial institutions and governme...
- Cyberattack on Australian telco Optus affects 1.2 million customers
The breach last month by an anonymous online account, which affected 10 million customers, equivalent to around 40% of Australia's populati...
Australian government slams Optus for cybersecurity breachThe company ran a full-page apology in major Australian newspapers on Saturday for the "devastating" breach that it first reported on Sept....
Austalia's Optus says 'deeply sorry' for cyberattackThe company has agreed to pay the cost of replacing passports of compromised customers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.
Optus, Australian govt clash over cyber attack amid reports of hacker retreatAustralian media reported on Tuesday that hackers have backtracked from their ransom demand of $1 million in cryptocurrency for not releasi...
Australia mulls tougher cybersecurity laws after data breachCybersecurity Minister Clare O'Neil told Australian Broadcasting Corp. the hack was an "unprecedented theft of consumer information in Aust...
- SingTel, Bharti, Globe, Optus to bring iPhone to parts of the region
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Bharti Airtel Ltd., Globe Telecom Inc. and SingTel subsidiary Optus- said on Monday they have signed an ...
- Australia scraps $ 871 million broadband contract
Australia's government has cancelled a multi-million dollar deal with telco Optus and rural finance business Elders to build a broadband In...