The Nov 8 outage struck Optus, which is owned by Singapore Telecommunications (SGX:Z74
) Ltd., little more than a year after it was hit by a major cyberattack. Rosmarin said the recent network failure meant 228 emergency calls for police, ambulance or firefighters failed to connect.
The head of Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, sidestepped questions from a parliamentary panel about her position following a nationwide outage that disconnected millions of customers and disabled parts of the public-transport network.
Chief Executive Officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was repeatedly asked by a senate committee investigating the crash if she was considering resigning, and whether Optus required fresh leadership. Rosmarin replied that her focus had been on the crisis. “It has not been a time to think about myself,” she said. She said she hadn’t seen a report Friday that she might quit as soon as next week.
