[LINK] Optus Network Failure

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Russell Ashdown wrote:
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> While the infrastructure horse may have well and truly left the stable 
> and bolted, I call upon the government to enact legislation that will 
> make it an obligation for all carriers to provide hot backup network 
> facilities for their competitors to use at no charge.
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The problem with doing it across the board is that it implies the carriers have 
redundant excess capacity, to cover such failures. It would be better for 
organisations to make and control their own contingency plans.

Marghanita
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