Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus' emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, during a bilateral meeting in Canberra on Wednesday (Oct 8). <br /><br />Wong offered his condolences to those affected and said he expected Optus and Singtel "to act responsibly, comply fully with Australian laws and cooperate with the ongoing inquiry."<br /><br />Two back-to-back outages of the emergency "000" number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia's second largest telecom operator that's owned by Singapore Telecommunications, majority owned by Singapore's state-run Temasek Holdings.<br /><br />The outages occurred less than a fortnight apart and affected thousands, with the first glitch linked to four deaths because customers were unable to get timely aid.<br /><br />WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news<br />SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar<br />LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline<br />
