Telstra executives say $30,000 hardware upgrade may have prevented outage | ABC NEWS

Telstra CEO Vicki Brady and other top executives have been grilled at a Senate Inquiry about the nationwide Telstra outage. It has been revealed that a server upgrade costing $30,000 dollars may have prevented the failure. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young accused Telstra of being 'smug' in the face of major problems with the reliability of its services.

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