Communications Minister Anika Wells says there is a “very serious lack of confidence” in Optus to deliver Triple Zero services to Australians, after its fatal outage in which three people died.

Wells met in Sydney on Tuesday morning with Optus chief executive Stephen Rue and his boss, Singtel chief Yuen Kuan Moon, who flew in from Singapore. Amid mounting political pressure Wells said she sought assurances from both Optus and Singtel that they would prioritise restoring confidence in the Triple Zero system.

“I think the CEO of Optus has a lot of work to do, given these two outages have happened in short succession and has given rise to a very serious lack of confidence in both Optus and their ability to deliver Triple Zero services to Australians when they need it most,” Wells told repor

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