21 Facts About Optus

Singtel Optus Pty Limited is an Australian telecommunications company headquartered in Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia.

Optus is the second-largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 10.

Optus gained the second general carrier licence in January 1991.

Around 22 September 2022, Optus systems sustained a significant cyberattack that resulted in a major data breach of both current and former customers' personal information, including customers' names, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses, with a smaller subset of customers having their street addresses, driving licence details and passport numbers leaked.

On 24 September 2022, Australian news outlets The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Optus was investigating the authenticity of a ransom demand of US$1 million made on a hacking forum.

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Whilst Telstra focused on creating a broadband network specifically for broadcast, Optus designed their cable network to provide telephony services in addition to broadcast television.

Optus is no longer a customer of Telstra's after deciding to move the funding used to lease Telstra's copper network into constructing their hybrid fibre-coaxial network, the first in Australia.

Optus returned to profitability in 1998 and changed its name to Cable and Wireless Optus Pty Limited.

Optus purchased one of Australia's pioneer ISPs, Microplex, in 1998 to provide consumer dial-up internet services.

Optus was to be contracted to build the network on behalf of OPEL.

Optus is part of a consortium – now known as Terria – that in July 2006 announced their intention to make a combined bid to build the proposed National Broadband Network.

Until 20 January 2013, Optus sold mobile services under the brand name Boost Mobile.

Optus gained exclusive access to this link in 2001, ahead of acquiring the organisation in 2005.

Optus network operates on the following bandwidth frequencies across Australia:.

In 2016, Optus signed a 10-year partnership agreement with the Australian Olympic Committee to be the official partner of the Australian Olympic Team and the Australian Paralympic Team until 2026.

In 2017, Optus won naming rights to Perth Stadium where it would be known as Optus Stadium.

Optus has a long-term partnership with the Adelaide Crows in the AFL.

Optus has been a partner of the Collingwood Magpies in the AFL Women's since 2018.

Optus is the current major sponsor for the No 25 Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden ZB Commodore driven by Chaz Mostert.

Since 2005, Optus has outsourced some customer service functions to Concentrix and 247.

In October 2006, Optus announced that it would outsource 100 contracting jobs to another Singtel subsidiary, IT company NCS, in Singapore.