Australia news live: Telstra CEO to face parliamentary inquiry over mobile outage

Vicki Brady due to appear at inquiry over mobile outage last week. Follow today’s news live.

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Telstra’s bosses are set to be grilled over a nationwide outage that affected triple zero calls and businesses, disrupted payment systems and stopped trains in two states.

Telstra’s chief executive, Vicki Brady, will be among a group of executives who will front a parliamentary inquiry into the incident in Canberra on Friday.