Rue, who is currently the Chief executive of Australian government-owned National Broadband Network will assume office from November this year, Singtel said Monday. Late last year, an Optus outage left millions of landline customers, including hospitals and government departments, without services. The Nov. 8 outage stemmed from an Optus systems' response to a software upgrade at its parent company, Singtel. "We expect Stephen's operational and financial background to lift service standards significantly for the benefit of our customers," Optus chairman Paul O'Sullivan said. "My job will be to take care of Optus' customers, people and business and to provide strong competition and choice," Rue said.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 06, 2024 02:51 UTC