Under-fire Optus executives have copped a parliamentary bashing for their response to a triple-zero outage linked to the deaths of three people.

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Chief executive Stephen Rue was in the firing line from coalition and crossbench senators for taking more than six hours to tell the communications minister and industry regulator about a massive increase in the scale of the September outage.

It prevented more than 600 triple-zero calls from connecting when Optus originally suggested the number involved was just a handful.

The telco announced on Monda

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