Unavailability of rpnz.co.nz

Wednesday 16 July, 2008

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience that has been caused due to rpnz.co.nz being unavailable to some users on Tuesday 15 July 2008.

A major telecommunications fault has shut down mobile and landline phone calls and internet connections in Queensland and some parts of New South Wales. Optus is blaming a broken fibre optic cable on the Gold Coast for the widespread outages, but the cause of the cable break is not yet known.

rpnz.co.nz is hosted in Queensland and was therefore affected by the broken fibre optic cable. Unfortunately this was out of our control and we apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.