emergency
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60,000 Victorians Plunged Back Into Dark Ages After Telstra Exchange Fire Cuts Services
Around 60,000 Victorians won’t be able to read this story. Why? Because a fire that tore through a Telstra telephone exchange building overnight gutted communication services to the south-western region of the state. Landlines, broadband, smartphones, ATMs. Everything.
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Inside Queensland Emergency Operations Centre
When you’re dialling 000, you’re probably not thinking about the technology behind the scenes that relays your call and manages disasters from the small scale to the world shaking. Keeping emergency responses ticking along is a high tech effort these days, as these pictures from inside Queensland’s Emergency Operations Centre show.
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Optus Offering Emergency Credit For Pre-Paid Customers
The days of being asked whether some dodgy looking stranger can use my mobile to send a text message because they’ve run out of credit are finally numbered. Optus has today announced their emergency credit service, which will let their prepaid customers borrow $3 worth of credit by texting ‘IOU’ to 468. The money will…