Telcos failures on Triple 0 are making Australians unsafe   
2025-11-18
greens.org.au
Quotes attributable to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Triple 0 service outage:

“It is tragic to hear that another Australian has died after being unable to connect to Triple 0 and my thoughts are with the family and friends of the person who has died.   

“Australians clearly can’t trust the big telcos to safely deliver the Triple 0 service.

“There is no excuse for Triple 0 calls to fail and ultimately it is up to the government to ensure that all Australians are able to connect to emergency services when they need them.

“Triple 0 being privatized and outsourced to big corporations that are driven by their profits is making Australians unsafe.

“The fact that this latest incident has occurred so soon after the Optus Triple 0 outage shows that the Triple 0 system is clearly not fit-for-purpose. There are serious systemic issues that need close scrutiny and action from government.

“ACMA cannot be left to carry out the investigations into these issues alone. They have already demonstrated that they are not up to regulating the big telcos and that they have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to issues with Triple 0.

“The Senate inquiry into Triple 0 service outage will hold another hearing in December and will be closely looking at this latest issue.

lee wrote on Nov 19^th, 2025 at 1:54pm:


Indeed.

And, while they're at it there needs to be some sort of inquiry into why phone manufacturers using Android are still being allowed to 'abandon' phones after about 2 years (if you're lucky) of security and feature updates.

There was talk about that happening some years ago but nothing has been done, of course.

Their excuse is that the 'older' phones are not compatible with newer versions of the Android operating system but I'm calling BS on that. And, if it does happen to be true then they're doing it deliberately to make sure people keep buying new phones all the time.

And then we have the government with their infamous Digital ID that they're trying to push onto everyone which can only be set up on an Apple or Android phone.

I don't know what Apple are like with their iPhone security updates but who in their right mind wants to set up this Digital ID on an Android phone which is usually a couple of months behind with security updates most of the time (my Samsung Galaxy A16 using Android 15 is still only up to September 1st as far as updates go) and then gets completely 'abandoned' after 2 years at the most.

I also have a perfectly good Nokia G21 phone which I bought a couple of years back and it has now been 'abandoned' as far as updates go - won't update past Android 13 and March 2025 security patch level.

Disgraceful stuff.