Outage stories - Page 4

Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.

Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.

A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.

The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Problems<br />continue to plague the XT Network as cellsites are upgraded and Telecom announces<br />the company that will review the recent outages.

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

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