Displaying items by tag: Allan Lew

The chief executive of Optus has resigned in the wake of the massive 8 November outage, but who are the top candidates set to replace her and lead the embattled telco company?

The head of Australia's second biggest telecommunications company has told staff that they would be fired if they upset customers, a report claims.

Telecommunications provider Optus says its Optus Sport service is being modified so that it can be accessed free of charge until 31 August, as per the announcement by its chief executive Allan Lew on Wednesday.

What did Optus chief executive Allan Lew mean when he announced on Wednesday that Optus Sport would be free to all Australians until 31 August? Did he mean that the content would be free?

Public broadcaster SBS will simulcast all remaining group matches of the World Cup football tournament along with Optus, in an agreement with the telco which has been dogged by issues with broadcasting games on its network.

The union that covers telecommunications workers claims the sacking of 400 more workers at Singtel Optus shows the "reprehensible contempt" that management has for the workforce.

Australia's second largest telco Optus says it will spend $1 billion to update and expand its mobile network in regional areas by the end of next year as part of an ongoing investment programme that has spent more than $3.6 billion on its mobile network since 2015.