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Gaming

PSN restoration begins

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 1st Jun 2011

More XT problems as independent reviewer appointed

Analysys Mason

We want a say in XT review - TUANZ

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 2nd Feb 2010

Outage

Telecom compensates customers

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

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Wed, 16th Dec 2009

Global Stories

Outage stories

DataCentre infrastructure

Cloud outages result in Amazon apology

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

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 3rd May 2011

Unified Communications

Telecom apologises for Auckland outage

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

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Mon, 21st Feb 2011

Unified Communications

Email outage strikes TelstraClear

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 9th Nov 2010

Orcon

Orcon loses years of customer emails

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

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Fri, 29th Oct 2010

Unified Communications

Vector blamed for Orcon outage

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.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Wed, 6th Oct 2010

Helpdesk

Major outage strikes Orcon

Orcon faces a second major network outage today, following an initial disruption this morning caused by a power issue with a third-party vendor.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 5th Oct 2010

Facebook

Facebook goes down (twice)

Facebook experienced its worst outage in over four years, leaving millions disconnected twice last week due to an internal error.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 27th Sep 2010

Analysys Mason

XT outages explained

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

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Fri, 7th May 2010

Outage

UPDATE: XT outage number five?

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 8th Apr 2010

Unified Communications

Vodafone sorry for service disruption

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 8th Mar 2010

Government

Minister orders investigation into 111

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

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Fri, 26th Feb 2010

Unified Communications

Alcatel Lucent NZ boss resigns, new appointment made

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

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 22nd Feb 2010

Unified Communications

Another corporate revisits XT migration

Fonterra halts XT Network migration pending Telecom's explanation of recent outages, joining the Automobile Association in reassessing their telecom strategies.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 11th Feb 2010