Blind Spots and Systemic Risks: The Telstra Outage as a Wake Up Call The July 2022 Telstra outage, which crippled Australia's mobile network, was more than just an unfortunate incident.
It exposed deeper issues within the company and the broader tech industry – systemic risks that can be predicted but are often ignored.
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney had been warning about such vulnerabilities in a paper published with federal government funding 11 months prior to the outage.