REGULATORY HEADWINDS
The telecom services provider is under heightened scrutiny following two outages involving Australia’s emergency call service that affected thousands of users and were linked to four deaths. The incidents led to the departure of two senior executives, including its finance chief.
Australia’s communications regulator said on Thursday it had launched Federal Court proceedings against Optus Mobile over the September 2025 outage, one of the incidents that drew criticism of the telecom provider.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has alleged Optus breached two legal obligations on 1,005 occasions during the outage by failing to provide access to the emergency call service and ensuring these calls were carried to the relevant termination point.
The regulator is seeking penalties of up to A$250,000 per contravention.
Singtel and Optus did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on the stake-sale discussions or the ACMA proceedings.
