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Telstra’s CEO faced a firestorm after a nationwide outage crippled digital services for hours, sparking outrage over a hollow apology packed with corporate buzzwords. Compounding the crisis, Telstra’s coverage maps were exposed as wildly inaccurate — shrinking by nearly a million square kilometers — revealing systemic neglect. The outage’s root cause? A $30,000 server update failure that sent systems back two decades, leaving over 600 emergency calls to triple zero unanswered. As smaller failures mount, critics see a pattern of cost-cutting eroding infrastructure and customer trust — and rebuilding that credibility will take far more than a scripted apology.

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