Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus' emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, during a bilateral meeting in Canberra on Wednesday (Oct 8).

Wong offered his condolences to those affected and said he expected Optus and Singtel "to act responsibly, comply fully with Australian laws and cooperate with the ongoing inquiry."

Two back-to-back outages of the emergency "000" number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia's second largest telecom operator that's owned by Singapore Telecommunications, majority owned by Singapore's state-run Temasek Holdings.

The outages occurred less than a fortnight apart and affected thousands, with the first glitch linked to four deaths because customers were unable to get timely aid.

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