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‘Human Error’: Internet Fault Sends 90 Percent of New Zealand Broadband Users Offline

A problem at the central provider of fibre cabling to all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) means homes and businesses across the country are without internet.
‘Human Error’: Internet Fault Sends 90 Percent of New Zealand Broadband Users Offline
A heatmap from Downdetector.co.nz showing internet outages in all New Zealand's major cities. Screenshot by The Epoch Times
Rex Widerstrom
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Large swathes of New Zealand have gone offline after an issue with the company responsible for its entire ultra-fast broadband fibre network, which is used by all local Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Estimates suggest 90 percent of broadband users were left without internet for about four hours.

Rex Widerstrom
Rex Widerstrom
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Rex Widerstrom is a New Zealand-based reporter with over 40 years of experience in media, including radio and print. He is currently a presenter for Hutt Radio.