Hundreds of reports of services outages have been clocked this afternoon as some New Zealanders faced issues connecting to the internet.
Slingshot and Orcon, both owned by Vocus Group, said via Twitter this afternoon that network issues had affected broadband services.
By 2.30pm, the providers said services had started to come back online but asked those who were still offline to be patient as it could take some time for systems to catch up.
The companies' call centres were facing an influx of calls and could be unreachable.