# Australia’s Optus apologises for outage that disrupted emergency calls

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- Reuters, 2026-09-12 05:30 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-optus-apologises-outage-that-disrupted-emergency-calls-2026-09-12/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6aa4e362aeda5200018eb76a

> Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecom carrier, apologised on Saturday after a network outage the previous day affected users across three states and disrupted some calls to emergency services.