Inquiry into national Telstra outage provides no reassurance similar failures won't happen again

◆ The Wire takeaway

If you build critical infrastructure for Australian telcos—whether switches, synchronisation units, or network management software—the regulator is about to force your customer to actually use your updates. Telstra's decision to skip a software patch has just handed government the case for mandatory reliability standards, which means telcos will move from 'nice to have' to 'must-implement' on lifecycle management.