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Our reliance upon electricity – to keep our devices ticking, to keep food cold or frozen, to light our homes and offices and to maintain a hot water supply, among other things – grows with each passing day.  But power outages happen.  And they always seem to hit at the …

Spark New Zealand – the country’s largest internet service provider – suffered a massive outage lasting nearly thirty hours from last Friday. The outage saw its nearly 700,000 customer base having slow or no internet connectivity on their mobile phones or computers – all because some users on their network …