Telstra faces outage investigation as expert says legal gaps may let it off

Telstra's nationwide mobile outage caused by GPS timing system failure has exposed legal gaps in Australia's critical infrastructure regulations that may have left the telco without obligation to address the known vulnerability. A government-commissioned infrastructure review found the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act does not adequately compel operators to secure space-based service dependencies like timing systems, despite warnings from agencies and experts in preceding months.

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