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Story summary
- Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecommunications provider, faced a February 9, 2026 outage affecting about 220,000 customers, including 120,000 with mobile service disruptions.
- Investigations revealed a vandalism incident involving a cut fibre cable in Mornington Peninsula caused the outage, according to Singtel.
- Optus apologized for the inconvenience.
- By 8:15 PM, about 60,000 customers remained affected.
- This incident followed a September 2025 outage linked to three deaths due to failed emergency calls.
