System operational

Past Incidents

6th June 2025

Unplanned Incident - Chorus LFC Outage

Latest update:

The Upstream Carrier has confirmed that this fault has been resolved now, and all connections should be restored. The outage appears to have been caused by accident during other planned works on-site.

No further disruptions are expected here, so if your connection remains offline, please reboot all on-site equipment. Failing that, reach out to our Support Team on 0800 534 567.

History:


[2025-06-06 12:30:43 NZST] Most connections look to be coming back online now. We will continue to monitor this, and leave this outage in place until the Carrier confirms this has been resolved completely.

If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out to our Support Team on 0800 534 567.


[2025-06-06 12:11:46 NZST] An LFC technician has been assigned to the fault and is currently sourcing spares. Current ETA is 13:30hrs 06/06/2025


[2025-06-06 12:00:12 NZST] As of 11:46 am, the LFC Technician has been dispatched to the fault area to investigate. The Fault appears to be located within the Courtney Place region.

Further updates to come.


[2025-06-06 11:24:31 NZST] Lightwire Engineers have been made aware of a carrier issue affecting large parts of the national network. We are slim on details at the moment but we have ruled out Lightwire Network specific issue. We will provide updates as they come through to us.


[2025-06-06 11:16:03 NZST] Lightwire Engineers are investigating a potential issue affecting Lightwire services. We don't have much detail just yet sorry, but senior engineers are looking into it with urgency and we will provide more information as soon as possible.

5th June 2025

No incidents reported

4th June 2025

No incidents reported

3rd June 2025

No incidents reported

2nd June 2025

No incidents reported

1st June 2025

Notification of Unplanned Carrier Outage

Latest update:

Local power has been restored and service should be back to normal. Upstream provider will continue to monitor for stability.

History:


[2025-06-01 11:27:44 NZST] A technician has attended the affected site and confirmed service outage is caused by local power outage due to heavy local flooding.


[2025-06-01 10:56:22 NZST] An Upstream Carrier has made us aware of an outage on their network that may cause loss of service. Their technicians are investigating this, but they have not provided an ETR just yet.

We will provide any updates as we receive them. If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out to our Support Team on 0800 534 567.

31st May 2025

No incidents reported

30th May 2025

Unplanned Outage - Hauturu

Lightwire engineers are aware of an outage to our Hauturu transmission site due to underperforming battery backup. There is a chance the site may come back online with more sunlight, but Lightwire technicians will be attending site today to replace the batteries.

We apologise for this and are working hard to restore services to normal. Please contact us at 0800 12 13 14 or support@lightwire.co.nz with any queries.