A temporary outage of one of Chorus’ core ethernet routers left thousands without internet across the lower North Island today.
A spokesperson for the telecommunications infrastructure company told 1News shortly after midday that all impacted services were back online.
“Chorus sincerely apologises for the inconvenience caused and are investigating the root issue.”
DownDetector showed a large spike in outages across telecommunications companies Spark, One NZ, Skinny and 2Degrees from around 10.45am.
A Chorus map showed that at the peak of the outage, more than 10,000 services were affected.
Voyager also said it had identified an issue impacting its Chorus Wellington UFB handover.
“This handover services Wellington, Kapiti, Hutt Valley, Palmerston North and through to Napier. Currently around 90% of connections are offline. We are working with Chorus on a resolution.”