Is Elon Musk lining up to buy Optus? According to Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton, he should.

ChannelNews recently revealed that Adderton is eyeing a bid for Optus , a story later picked up by the Australian Financial Review , where he claimed major superannuation funds such as AustralianSuper could back a local takeover of the embattled telco.

Adderton also suggested Musk might join the mix. “If I was Elon, I’d buy [into] Optus tomorrow, I think that would be a great buy for him,” he said.

The comments come as Optus faces mounting pressure from regulators and the federal government following September’s catastrophic Triple Zero outage that left emergency calls unanswered and prompted a Senate inquiry into Singtel’s foreign ownership of critical Australian infrastructure.

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