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Telco Singtel Optus which was hit by an outage of its mobile and broadband services at 4am on Wednesday says some some services across fixed wireless and mobile have been restored.

Singtel Optus has been affected by a national outage since 4am on Wednesday, with its 10.2 million customers unable to make mobile calls or use NBN services.

Simon Ractcliffe returns to cybersecurity company Secureworks, this time, joining as ANZ and Asean regional managing director and general manager.

Asian communications technology group Singtel has launched CUBΣ, a unified suite of network solutions and services that it says will modernise the digital network infrastructure of enterprises so they can work smarter, more efficiently and cost effectively.

Asian communications technology group Singtel and global investment firm KKR have reached a definitive agreement under which a fund managed by KKR will commit up to S$1.1 billion (US$800 million) for a 20% stake in Singtel’s regional data centre business.

Telco Singtel Optus will not release a report into the data breach it suffered last year, which it commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to carry out, the company has confirmed.

Telecommunications firm Singtel Optus says it has nothing to add to its earlier statement about former NSW premier and current Optus executive Gladys Berejiklian's future following the finding of serious corrupt conduct against her by the NSW Independent Commission against Corruption in June.

Singtel Optus says it has no update on a report into the data breach it suffered last year, which it commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to do.

Real estate group Lendlease and telco provider Optus signed a multi-year technology partnership which will cover three key elements: Lendlease will transition its existing mobile and data services to Optus; Optus will roll out its insights tool Podium Property Insights (PPI), starting with its Adelaide office; and Lendlease and Optus jointly exploring other opportunities for collaboration.

Dominant operator Singtel has announced a structural reorganisation with the consolidation of its consumer and enterprise businesses in Singapore into a single entity, and the formation of a standalone infrastructure unit.

Telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has been hit with a class action, with the law firm Slater and Gordon saying it had been filed on behalf of people affected by last year's data breach.

Singaporean telecommunications provider Singtel plans to integrate its Indonesian partner Telkom's fixed broadband business into its regional wireless associate provider Telkomsel, reported The Business Times.

Maximum 5G download speeds have nearly reached 1Gbps, with Norway leading at 994Mbps and Spain at 993.60Mbps, topping rankings for maximum 5G download speeds for indoors and outdoors, and is trailed by US and Austria behind with outdoor tests delivering 966Mbps and 921.10Mbps respectively, according to the Global Cellular Performance Survey conducted by Cellsmart, the cellular intelligence division of SmartCIC.

Digital infrastructure and continuity solutions provider Vertiv has appointed Vai Le as associate channel director for Australia and New Zealand.

Telecommunications providers in the Asia-Pacific region are increasingly turning to selling towers to ease the financial strain they are under, the global ratings agency S&P Global Ratings says in a research note.

Telco Singtel Optus has set aside $140 million for costs associated with the catastrophic breach it announced in September, with the company announcing this as part of its half-year results on Thursday.

The state of Victoria will go to the polls on 26 November. Given that, it is easy to understand why the state's transport authority, VicRoads, has jumped ahead of the pack in saying it will issue new licences to those whose documents were compromised in the disastrous Singtel Optus data breach.

More than a month after it announced a major data breach, telco Singtel Optus is yet to pay a single dollar towards the costs of replacing the passports of users whose data was leaked. iTWire understands that close to 100,000 passports have been listed for protection.

Optus customers, whose passport numbers were exposed in the catastrophic breach suffered by the telco, do not need to get the documents replaced, Optus says in a statement to the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Data stolen during an attack on Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel, which the company says was exfiltrated on 20 January last year, has been lying on the dark Web since February 2021 and was reposted to a clear Web forum on 7 October, a security professional says.