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 Optus headquarters in Macquarie Park | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1981 (as AUSSAT) |
| Headquarters | Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia |
Area served | Australia |
Key people |
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| Products | Fixed telephony Mobile telephony Internet access Cable television Leased lines Data transmission |
| Revenue |  A$8.05 billion (2023)[1] |
| A$2.09 billion (2023)[1] | |
| A$286 million (2023)[1] | |
Number of employees | 7,572 (2023)[2] |
| Parent | Singtel[3][4][5] |
| Divisions | Optus Sport Amaysim |
| Website | optus |
Singtel Optus Pty Limited is an Australian telecommunications company headquartered in Macquarie Park, a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel.
Optus is the second-largest telecommunications company in Australia, with over 11 million customers as of 2023.[2] Its mobile network covers 98.5% of the Australian population, with plans to cover 100% of Australia by 2025 through its partnership with SpaceX.[6]
- ^ a b c "Optus Customer Growth and Price Discipline Underpin Positive Results" (PDF). Optus. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Optus Sustainability Report 2023" (PDF). Optus. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ Swan, David; Keoghan, Sarah; Ireland, Olivia (8 November 2023). "'Today was a bad day': Optus CEO apologises for mass outage". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment. Archived from the original on 9 November 2023.
Optus is owned by Singaporean parent company Singtel, whose executive board has been visiting Australia this week. Shares in Singtel fell by nearly 5 per cent on the Singapore Exchange on Wednesday.
- ^ Swan, David (21 November 2023). "Optus' year from hell raises questions for parent company Singtel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment. Archived from the original on 23 November 2023.
Optus is fully owned by Singtel, which itself is majority owned by Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore government, which owns 55 per cent of the company's issued share capital.
- ^ Beckham, Jeff (26 December 2023). "65+ Inspiring Singtel Statistics and Facts in 2023". The Tech Report. Archived from the original on 26 December 2023.
Optus, the second-largest telecommunications company in Australia, is 100% owned by Singtel. This acquisition has contributed substantially to Singtel's international presence.
- ^ "Together Optus and SpaceX Plan to Cover 100% of Australia". Optus. Retrieved 12 April 2024.