TPG had initially sought a similar agreement with Telstra

The telco had planned to terminate the service in August of this year

During the 90 minutes, 148 emergency calls failed to transfer over Triple Zero

Could impact Telstra and Optus' plans to retire legacy service

Optus is still searching for a new CEO

Government approves technology

He departs months after CEO resigned following the outage

Construction of site expected to begin next year

Becomes the first Australian telco to begin retirement of 3G

The number of job losses in New Zealand has not been disclosed

The search for a permanent successor is on

Optus was hit by a 14-hour outage last week

Had to reboot network physically

Will mark its 25th anniversary

The outage lasted for 12 hours

Telstra to support the upgrades. And Prague updates its metro network's connectivity

Will snap up the spectrum it owns

Vocus had been granted an exclusive extension last month

The duo expect to launch 5G broadband services in 2024

Will use Meta's Terragraph network

Australia's Competition Tribunal (ACT) halted the plans in June

Has made a non-binding offer

Has increased mobile network coverage from 60 percent to approximately 99 percent

Engineers and repair equipment will be provided