Outage stories - Page 3

Global internet disruptions have surged by 63% during the COVID-19 pandemic, with ISPs particularly affected, according to a report by ThousandEyes.

It's estimated the average cost per network outage in the United States alone amounts to US$402,542 – with one in ten major outages costing over $1 million.

Technical issues at many Australian and New Zealand firms go unnoticed until customers report them, revealing weak outage and delay detection methods.

The most significant of these outages took place over the northern hemisphere summer and disrupted nearly every top tech company in some fashion.

Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.

The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.

Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.

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.

Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.

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.

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

Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.

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

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

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.