Why the internet sometimes still lets us downROSS GIBLIN/STUFF Internet cables have a heart of glass. READ MORE: Major fibre cable cut in Sydney affects some NZ internet usersMark Callander, chief executive of Vocus NZ, which owns Slingshot and Orcon, said international web-browsing was not cut-off completely. There are tens of thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic cables in New Zealand that transfer internet data around the country. Young notes that when outages do happen, more people feel it more, given our growing reliance on the internet. Consumer NZ spokesman Hayden Green says internet services are usually provided on a "best efforts" basis and consumers have few rights.

Source: Stuff March 22, 2018 23:48 UTC