By Courtney Gould

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A pair of triple-0 outages will be the topic of discussion when Communications Minister Anika Wells meets with Optus boss Stephen Rue and chief executive of the telco’s parent company, Singtel, today.

Yuen Kuan Moon was summoned for a meeting with the minister to explain Singtel’s role in an emergency network outage on September 18 that’s been linked to the death of three people.

The meeting follows another outage affecting triple-0 calls on Sunday near Wollongong on the NSW south cost, that led to nine failed calls.

Ahead of the meeting, Environment Minister Murray Watt said Wells was prepared to “lay down the law” with Singtel.

“I’m very confident that Anika will really lay down the law the parent company, [Singtel], CEO,” he told Nine.”She’s obviously already had discussions with Optus themselves, but escalating that now to the parent company demonstrates how seriously we are taking this.”

The government has ordered the Australian Communications Media Authority to get to the bottom of the outages.

Asked if Australians could still have faith in the triple-0 system, Watt said people were right to have questions and called for Optus to “come clean” on what it knows.

“I don’t think it goes as far as people needing to lose faith in the system.”

Greens leader Larissa Waters, who was also on the panel, called for the communications minister to put the conditions of Optus’ telco licence under review.

minister’s got the power already without any further reviews or inquiries, to simply appoint an independent technical expert to look at the capacity of Optus to service that triple-0 emergency call.”