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Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known

Photograph: Dean Sewell
Photograph: Dean Sewell

Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas while minister Anika Wells says it is ‘time for Telstra to face the music’

Telstra has admitted it knew of the dangers of a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to stop this week’s outage, as its chief executive says she’s “deeply sorry” about its impacts.

South Australian police have ruled out a link between a death and the outage, while the communications minister said it was “time for Telstra to face the music”.

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