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Labor to introduce triple zero ‘custodian’ legislation to parliament this week

Three major telco bosses will be hauled into parliament today for a chat with the communications minister, Anika Wells, following two outages of the Optus mobile network.

We expect the obligations that are given by the telecommunications companies in putting in place the triple zero service that those obligations are met, and that is obviously what we have been talking with Optus about when this has previously been looked at after the previous outage a couple of years ago.

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