The moment of reckoning for Optus and the leaders of its owner Singtel has delivered plenty of theatre but little clarity on what happens next, especially when it comes to guaranteeing Triple Zero calls are no longer knocked out when there’s a network outage.

In fact, for all the talk of transparency, the lead-up to the companies’ meeting with Communications Minister Anika Wells was steeped in the kind of secrecy usually reserved for visits from state leaders. Optus and the federal government were both coy about the timing and the location of the chat.

Even the Optus/Singtel board meeting – which ended up being held at Optus chairman John Arthur’s house in lower North Sydney instead of the telco’s sprawling headquarters at Macquarie Park – was a hush-hush affair.

For all the cloak-and

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