Network ‘plagued with faults’ (Australian IT / Michael Sainsbury and Steve Lewis)

From the article: “TELSTRA’S copper network is suffering record fault rates because the telco has withheld up to $3 billion worth of crucial investment, according to the document at the centre of an investigation into the company.

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The company revealed for the first time that the state of its copper network was much worse that expected. In a slide it outlined the problems with its network. Heading the list of bad news was that Telstra had “received 14.3 million fault calls (more than 14 per cent of all lines have faults);”

That is indeed a lot of faults.