{"id":294717,"date":"2026-02-21T06:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:20:10","slug":"chorus-locates-fault-in-west-auckland-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294717\/","title":{"rendered":"Chorus locates fault in West Auckland internet outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4LP0MG6_121544228_l_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"630\" alt=\"Cross section of a submarine communications cable - 3d illustration.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nIt is not expected to be restored until Sunday.<br \/>\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>Chorus said it has located the fault that has knocked out internet services to nearly 7500 customers in West Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The fixed-line telecoms and infrastructure company said several copper and fibre cables had been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>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>Chorus said repair crews are working as fast as they can<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not expected to be restored until Sunday. Photo: 123RF Chorus said it has located the fault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-294717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}