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About 2282 households and four business customers in Onehunga and Māngere are still without broadband, Chorus said yesterday evening.
The area is now entering day three of an internet outage caused by vandals early on Monday morning.
The vandals cut cables under Māngere Bridge on the Southwestern Motorway, taking 3000 fibre customers and nine copper connections offline, a Chorus spokeswoman said. Police are investigating.
“Repairs have been difficult, due to the restricted space under the bridge and the number of fibres that were damaged and needed to be repaired,” the spokeswoman said.
Adding insult to injury, a car hit a power pole in Onehunga at 1.30am today, leaving several neighbourhoods without power.
Chorus estimates repairs, which include blowing 1km of fibre, will be finished this afternoon.
“We have multiple crews working 24/7 on multiple cables at once and can see services being restored as the fibres are connected,” the spokeswoman said.
“Obviously we are really disappointed that the actions of a few have led to inconvenience for so many and apologise to all who have been affected.”
Ahmed said the outage was causing more problems for an already-struggling town centre.
“I feel sorry for our village here, with the business people who are already struggling to have customers here.
“Now, with this happening, I think we are going backwards.
“Technology, we think it’s going to be better, but I think we’re going backwards.”
With reporting by RNZ
Chris Keall is an Auckland-based member of the Herald’s business team. He joined the Herald in 2018 and is the technology editor and a senior business writer.