‘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.

A heatmap from Downdetector.co.nz showing internet outages in all New Zealand's major cities. Screenshot by The Epoch Times

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.