Landlines, internet and mobile services throughout Southland were down on Saturday night due to bad weather further north. The outage affected most Spark and some 2degrees customers, but connectivity was restored for most Invercargill residents by 9am on Sunday. The outage affected all Spark users south of Ashburton. READ MORE:* Spark services south of Ashburton reduced to 111 mobile calls only* Wild weather causes huge outage on South Island Spark network* Stranded travellers and residents hunkering down in flooded Rangitata as roads remain closedOn Sunday morning, 2degrees said it was aware that customers in the south of South Island were "having difficulties," but the mobile service was up-and-running again by 8am. The weather also caused multiple fibre breaks along the network between Christchurch and Dunedin.

Source: Stuff December 08, 2019 01:41 UTC