The system is experiencing issues

Past Incidents

2nd August 2025

No incidents reported

1st August 2025

Unplanned service disruption - Wharepapa South Region

Lightwire is aware of an unplanned fibre outage affecting our rural wireless transmission sites in and around the Wharepapa South region. Affected customer connection speeds will be impacted until the outage has been resolved. If you have any questions regarding this outage please feel free to reach out to us on 0800 121 314.

31st July 2025

No incidents reported

30th July 2025

No incidents reported

29th July 2025

No incidents reported

28th July 2025

No incidents reported

27th July 2025

Site Offline - Matata

Latest update:

Our technicians have attended this site and resolved the problem. All connections should now be back online. If you're still experiencing issues, please get in touch with our Helpdesk on 0800 12 13 14 or at support@lightwire.co.nz

History:


[2025-07-27 11:43:21 NZST] Lightwire technicians are now en route to site. We anticipate to be on site to start investigations and equipment replacement around 3pm.

We apologize for any inconveniences and will be working hard to restore services to normal as quickly as possible. Please feel free to contact us at support@lightwire.co.nz or at 0800 12 13 14 with any queries.


[2025-07-27 10:43:26 NZST] Our investigation has determined equipment failure to be the probable cause of this outage. Technicians are now preparing to head to site with replacement equipment.


[2025-07-27 10:19:28 NZST] A fault has occurred at the tower you are connected to, resulting in all connections being taken offline. We are currently investigating this issue, and will update you with further information once we have it.

25th July 2025

Upstream Fibre Outage - Waotu Region

Latest update:

Lightwire engineers have stood up a temporary fibre connection with our upstream provider due to a currently unknown time frame for fault resolution on our original primary fibre service. We anticipate that this temporary fix should restore services to as near normal as possible.

We apologize for any inconveniences this has or may be causing and are working closely with our upstream fibre provider on a permanent fix. Please feel free to contact us at 0800 12 13 14 or at support@lightwire.co.nz with any queries.

History:


[2025-08-01 08:46:37 NZST] Our upstream fibre provider is still working on a resolution for our fibre fault and have indicated the solution may be more complicated than when initially scoped. Lightwire engineers have been happy with how our redundant network paths have been handling the load through this period, but are continually monitoring the situation and will be implementing improvements to reduce network congestion where they can.

We apologize for any inconveniences this has or may be causing and are working closely with our upstream fibre provider on a permanent fix. Please feel free to contact us at 0800 12 13 14 or at support@lightwire.co.nz with any queries.


[2025-07-25 15:06:45 NZST] Lightwire engineers have been working with our upstream fibre provider to resolve a fibre fault at our Waotu transmission site. Unfortunately, they will be unable to resolve the fault before end of today. A return visit to site on Monday has been scheduled.

Due to the nature of the fault, our fibre backhaul is down and the network is using redundant paths. Customers could experience speed degradation during peak hours as a result of this.

We apologise for the inconvenience and will be working hard to restore services to normal as quickly as possible. Please reach out to us at 0800 12 13 14 or at support@lightwire.co.nz with any queries.