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How a throwback to 2006 took down Telstra’s national phone network

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The same technology that helps your smartphone know when daylight savings ends set off a ‘digital domino chain’ that locked customers out of the network Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast John Howard was still the prime minister, the first iPhone was months away, and Facebook had only just become available to the world. Newsiline summarises this report from The Guardian Australia and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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