South Australian Police say a newborn boy is unlikely to have died as a result of a catastrophic Triple Zero failure on the Optus network, despite his family being impacted by the outage.

Among those originally thought to have died as a result of the incident on Thursday were an eight-week-old boy and a 68-year-old woman from South Australia, and two men from Western Australia, aged 49 and 74.

However, SA Police on Sunday said preliminary investigations had found the outage it was “unlikely” to have contributed to the death of the baby boy.

Optus is grappling with the fallout from the catastrophic Triple Zero failure. Credit: Renee Nowytarger

“The deceased boy’s grandmother has told investigating police that she attempted to call 000 using her mobile phone when she was alerted to t

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