Ring of fire
It was a rough day in Canberra for Optus boss Stephen Rue, who faced a rare united front of senators over the telco's triple-zero outage.
Embattled Optus chief executive Stephen Rue has a lot on his plate right now.
As Capital Brief revealed last week, morale inside Optus is at rock-bottom levels as the company slashes costs by emptying one of its Sydney buildings and cutting staff perks.
But Optus’ deadly triple-zero outage has forced Rue to confront an external crisis, fronting a Senate committee hearing over the telco’s failure.
The former NBN CEO and News Corp executive, who was backed by a vote of confidence from chairman John Arthur, offered contrition, but that did little to stop the barrage of criticism from both sides of the aisle.
