3 Jul 2025

Phone and internet services restored to most places

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 3 July 2025

Chorus have said phone and internet has been restored to most homes and businesses in Golden Bay, after a day-long outage affecting 111 emergency calls. Technicians found a severed fibre line running over Takaka Hill, knocking out more than a thousand connections. Reporter Keiller MacDuff was following developments and spoke to Lisa Owen.