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Results of the telcos and essential services poll

The latest Telstra outage affected everything from EFTPOS payments to train services. Are we too reliant on telcos for essential services?

  • Yes – these services are important and we’re seeing more outages – 73%
  • Maybe, but it’s probably too late to find an alternative – 15%
  • No – the benefits of using mobile technology outweighs the risk – 12%

1522 votes

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