Today, Telstra Chief Financial Officer Michael Ackland appeared before the country’s media to apologize – and answer questions about the massive outage that threw the country into chaos.
It stopped trains, switched off traffic lights and closed shops after the EFTPOS system failed. And some calls to triple zero did not go through.
technology reporter josh taylor talks to Reged Ahmed What happened, who will take the blame and what can be done to ensure that critical connectivity is not lost again

