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1. A telecommunications outage by Optus leaves more than 10 million people in Australia without service for more than nine hours.
   2023-11-09 02:21:06 (First version)
2. A telecommunications outage by Optus leaves more than 10 million people in Australia without internet and mobile phone service for more than nine hours.
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