When Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigned as the CEO of Optus, earlier this week, it wasn’t a surprise. This came only days after Optus unleashed one of the worst ever telecommunications outages in our country’s history.

But now there’s a massive question hanging in the air. Who will be Optus’ next CEO?And why is former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian considered a front runner? Especially since NSW’s independent corruption commission found her guilty of serious corrupt conduct, just five months ago?

Today, technology editor David Swan on what a new senate committee hearing into the Optus outage has told us about what damage the company inflicted on the public. And the future of Australia’s second largest telecommunications company.

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