Outages stories - Page 2

Spark mobile and broadband services were down on Sunday, with widespread outages impacting some customers across the country.

Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.

Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.

TelstraClear's unmetered weekend saw a data usage 'frenzy,' with customers consuming 359TB, a 2.5-fold increase from the previous weekend's total.

Orcon experienced two outages yesterday, attributing the first to Vector's network issues and the second to a power board failure at its Northcote data centre.

Telecom and Alcatel Lucent failed to manage the high number of subscribers attracted onto the XT Network when it launched in May last year.

Alcatel Lucent NZ CEO Steve Lowe resigns; Jyoti Mahurkar-Thombre to assume leadership on 8 March amid ongoing Telecom XT network issues.

Problems<br />continue to plague the XT Network as cellsites are upgraded and Telecom announces<br />the company that will review the recent outages.

Major users are demanding input into Telecom’s independent review into why the XT Network crashed twice in two months.