{"id":76432,"date":"2025-08-18T02:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76432\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:47:08","slug":"thousands-lose-internet-as-tauranga-hit-by-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76432\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands lose internet as Tauranga hit by outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family:'Sohne',Arial,Sans-serif;display: flex;align-items: center;font-size: 14px;\" class=\"story-paragraph sunlive-paragraph\">First published on <a style=\"background: none !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"65px\" height=\"30px\" style=\"display: flex;background: none;\" alt=\"SunLive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sunlive-d870a1079027127df6975bcb127d66904bc7dbb1cdc889f7d40f913f12744728.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4NVZ6LU_copyright_image_149278\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"white router includes two green cable connectors rg45, home router\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>Work is underway to restore fibre to a large part of Tauranga after a feeder cable was cut on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in an internet fibre outage affecting users in The Lakes area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A civil construction contractor undertaking work on Cambridge Road, Tauranga, accidentally struck one of our feeder cables,&#8221; said Tuatahi First Fibre chief network officer Lyndon Templeton.<\/p>\n<p>The outage happened around 10pm, with around 2000 residential services impacted, including 260 business connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our crews have been on site through the night. The damaged fibre cables have now been removed, and new cables are being installed and jointed today,&#8221; said Templeton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, due to the scale of the damage, there was no option for a temporary repair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Restoration work is progressing and we expect services to be gradually restored during the course of today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand this is disruptive and appreciate the patience of affected residents and businesses while urgent repairs are completed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/370266-fibre-outage-hits-tauranga-businesses-and-homes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article originally appeared on Sunlive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First published on Photo: 123RF Work is underway to restore fibre to a large part of Tauranga after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,237,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,105],"class_list":["post-76432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}