Telstra bosses face shareholder grilling, chairman concedes telco ‘fell short’ on outage

Telstra’s board is defending its response to July’s nationwide outage as shareholders weigh if a $607,000 cut to chief executive Vicki Brady’s bonus is enough to hold executives to account.

Telstra executives have faced shareholders, three months after an outage shut down huge parts of the national rail, mobile and triple-0 networks.