Australia will soon have a new “triple-0 custodian” to oversee the country’s troubled telecommunications giants in the wake of last month’s fatal Optus breakdown.

Communications Minister Anika Wells introduced a Bill to the federal parliament on Tuesday to establish the permanent custodian, which will hold oversight powers over telco providers.

The custodian will be able to demand information from telco companies so it can monitor triple-0 performance and identify risks and respond more quickly to outages.

The government has also pledged to establish real-time reporting of outages to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, with the real-time system set to begin on November 1.

New rules also force telcos to test triple-0 during upgrades and maintenance and require them to ens

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