{"id":597999,"date":"2026-09-12T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597999\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:12:09","slug":"swanson-and-massey-fibre-outage-caused-by-vandalism-to-chorus-network-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597999\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanson and Massey fibre outage caused by vandalism to Chorus network cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Crews will be working through the night to get the network back up and running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRestoring fibre services is a highly technical process that involves carefully repairing and splicing individual fibre connections\u201d, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Services will be restored progressively, with vulnerable customers and critical services prioritised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe appreciate customers\u2019 patience and understanding while we work to complete repairs as soon as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The outage comes as the Warriors face the Dolphins tonight in the NRL qualifying finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">One customer told the Herald she would be watching tonight\u2019s game using her phone data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews will be working through the night to get the network back up and running. \u201cRestoring fibre services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,138,3595,47608,8604,42601,4381,5085,359,101,17306,3805,111,139,69,25347,174347,2742,61,26995,1339],"class_list":["post-597999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-and","tag-business","tag-by","tag-cables","tag-caused","tag-chorus","tag-customers","tag-fibre","tag-internet","tag-left","tag-massey","tag-network","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outage","tag-swanson","tag-thousands","tag-to","tag-vandalism","tag-without"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597999","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=597999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}