Outage stories - Page 2

Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.

Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.

Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.

Telco firm returns service to 200,000 customers after broadband connection problems earlier this morning.

Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.

Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.

Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.

A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.

The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.

Sony’s PlayStation Network is on the road to recovery after hackers compromised it, causing a nearly month-long outage.

Amazon apologises and explains the large scale outages in its cloud hosting service that disrupted high traffic websites across the net.

Steady progress is being made, with the majority of customers now back online, a Telecom spokesperson has said.

After a significant outage, TelstraClear restores email services, apologises for disruption affecting Paradise and ClearNet users.

Orcon loses emails for 266 customers in overnight outage, with efforts to retrieve them so far unsuccessful. #Orcon #emailoutage.

Updated: All essential services have now been restored, says Orcon.

Facebook has been plagued with outages over the last few days, crashing twice within 24 hours.

Telecom's troubled XT Network appears<br />to be experiencing its fifth outage since December - this time in the Auckland<br />area.

Vodafone has apologised to customers affected by a network failure in the weekend which affected customers in the Bay of Plenty.

The government has launched an investigation in the failure of some emergency 111 calls in Auckland this morning.

In December they gave XT another chance, in February they are less forgiving.

Customers affected by the XT outage last week will be offered free calling, texting and data downloads in a compensation package expected to cost Telecom $5 million.

Telecom announces an independent review after XT Network crashes again, leaving the CEO angry at letting customers down.

Telecom has advised on Twitter that customers south of Taupo may be experiencing problems.

XT customers will get free calling to Telecom landlines and Telecom mobiles this weekend in compensation for Monday’s outage.