Internet restored after sliced fibre cables cause outage in Whanganui 1 May, 2021 11:00 PM 2 minutes to read 288 individual fibres needed to be re-spliced overnight on Saturday. Photo / 123RF Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron Broadband has been restored to more than 600 Whanganui properties after a 30-hour operation to restore severed fibre cables. Two underground Ultrafast Fibre cables were completely were cut, leaving 660 customers in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea area without internet on Friday afternoon. Ultrafast Fibre chief operations officer Richard Riley said he understood the outage was caused by third-party contractors who were working in the area.