{"id":16694,"date":"2026-02-21T19:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16694"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:11:26","slug":"chorus-locates-fault-in-west-auckland-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16694","title":{"rendered":"Chorus locates fault in West Auckland internet outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Chorus said it has located the fault that has knocked out internet services to nearly 7500 customers in West Auckland.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">The Chorus outage is impacting Te Atat\u016b, Henderson, and Massey &#8211; with people unable to access the internet via their fibre connections since 5.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"intra-article-module\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;intraArticle&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13}\">\n<div class=\"articlePageIntraArticleFullWidth ad-slot-placeholder left-image-intra-ad full-bleed-image-intra-ad intra-ad-rm-bg intra-ad-rm-h\" data-ad-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"left-image-intra-ad full-bleed-image-intra-ad\">\n<div class=\"responsive-views-ad-container\">\n<div class=\"root\">\n<div class=\"content-card-container\">The fixed-line telecoms and infrastructure company said several copper and fibre cables had been damaged.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">It said the repairs are complex, due to multiple cables and the location of the problem, and it is not expected to be restored until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Chorus said repair crews are working as fast as they can.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chorus said it has located the fault that has knocked out internet services to nearly 7500 customers in West Auckland. The Chorus outage is impacting Te Atat\u016b, Henderson, and Massey &#8211; with people unable to access the internet via their fibre connections since 5.30am on Saturday. The fixed-line telecoms and infrastructure company said several copper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16697,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions\/16697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}