Optus has appointed a telecommunications seasoned arsenic its caller main executive, six months aft a nationwide outage astatine the telco near astir a 3rd of Australians without net oregon mobile service.
Stephen Rue volition go Optus CEO successful November aft six years arsenic the caput of Australia's National Broadband Network and 4 years arsenic its main fiscal officer.
During his clip with network, helium oversaw a broadband rollout to much than 8 cardinal homes and businesses crossed the nation.
'I'm honoured and excited to beryllium fixed the accidental to pb Optus, a institution that has strived to service Australians for implicit 2 decades,' Mr Rue said successful a connection connected Monday.
'My occupation volition beryllium to instrumentality attraction of Optus' customers, radical and concern and to supply beardown contention and choice.
'I look guardant to accelerating the translation astatine Optus truthful chap Australians proceed to person the prime of a beardown alternate telecoms provider.'
Optus president Paul O'Sullivan said Mr Rue's assignment came aft an extended internal, outer and planetary search.
'We expect Stephen's operational and fiscal inheritance to assistance work standards importantly for the payment of our customers,' helium said.
'His acquisition successful mounting up the integer backbone of Australia volition service america good arsenic we reinvigorate Optus arsenic Australia's starring challenger telecommunications brand.'
Optus has besides introduced a caller governance exemplary that volition unit its CEO and executives to study to the committee and rebuild lawsuit trust.
Former Optus main Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down successful November aft the telecommunications elephantine suffered 2 large nationalist relations disasters.
In September 2022, Optus suffered a monolithic information breach that affected 10 cardinal Australians and resulted successful the theft and leaking online of driver's licence, Medicare and passport numbers of 10,000 customers.
Former Optus main Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down successful November aft the telecommunications elephantine suffered 2 large nationalist relations disasters
About 14 months later, it was deed by a 12-hour-long outage that prevented millions of Australians from accessing the net and receiving compartment work and stopped thousands of exigency calls.
The national authorities has since reviewed the outage and is readying changes to support Australians from aboriginal issues by boosting oversight of the exigency web and improving the accountability of telecommunications companies.
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