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

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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.