{"id":295680,"date":"2026-02-21T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:52:08","slug":"chorus-internet-outage-connectivity-restored-for-8000-west-auckland-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295680\/","title":{"rendered":"Chorus internet outage: Connectivity restored for 8000 West Auckland homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Describing it as a \u201cone-off localised fault\u201d, Chorus said earlier  that the repair work was complex because of the location and number of damaged cables.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"About 8000 households in West Auckland have been cut off from the internet until further notice after damage to the Chorus network. Photo \/ Chorus\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>About 8000 households in West Auckland have been cut off from the internet until further notice after damage to the Chorus network. Photo \/ Chorus<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur crews are working as hard as they can to ensure the impact is as short as possible,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe recognise how important connectivity is to people\u2019s daily lives and appreciate everyone\u2019s patience and understanding as we work to restore communications as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">One resident affected by the outage said they didn\u2019t feel the outage was being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe outage was widespread and Chorus was made aware at 5.45am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey didn\u2019t appear to do much about it until 2pm when traffic management was put in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTechnicians only arrived on site at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhat I\u2019d like to know is why it took almost 12 hours for technicians to start work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Describing it as a \u201cone-off localised fault\u201d, Chorus said earlier that the repair work was complex because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[163102,2840,51,1558,42601,12693,163103,5504,2082,305,6800,29012,359,661,111,43,139,69,25347,159260,1858,2742,3807],"class_list":{"0":"post-295680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-163102","9":"tag-across","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-chorus","13":"tag-connectivity","14":"tag-daylong","15":"tag-following","16":"tag-for","17":"tag-have","18":"tag-homes","19":"tag-households","20":"tag-internet","21":"tag-major","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-outage","27":"tag-reconnected","28":"tag-restored","29":"tag-thousands","30":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295680","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=295680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}