In its submission to the Optus outage inquiry, telco says rival roaming would require massive changes and investment
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Telstra has downplayed the possibility of allowing customers of one mobile operator to be able to use another mobile network in the event of a nationwide outage such as the Optus outage earlier this month, arguing it would require massive changes and investment.
In the aftermath of the 14-hour Optus network outage on 8 November, questions were raised as to why Optus customers could not roam on to Telstra’s or Vodafone’s network instead – with a similar system put in place in Canada following an identical outage from one telco last year.
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