Western Australia’s opposition emergency services spokesman Rob Horstman has called for a thorough investigation into the ‘untenable’ Optus outage that has left one person dead in WA and two in South Australia.

“My take on this really is the Universal Service Obligation needs to be strengthened,” he said.

“I think that obviously the state government has a role, as they have done with many other issues in recent times, to put pressure on their federal government colleagues to ensure this happens.

“I mean that to me is that’s an untenable situation, which has resulted in three people tragically losing their lives across South Australia and WA, of course.”

The failure on Thursday affected about 600 Optus customers in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia after a ne

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