Rodents blamed for massive NZ Telecom outage

Telecom Asia reports that New Zealand's largest telecommunications provider was checking whether rats gnawing a cable were partly to blame for an outage that disrupted mobile phone and Internet services and shut down the country's Stock Exchange on Monday.

"NZ Telecom spokesman John Goulter said the company "could not rule out the possibility" that rodents got into its ducts north of the capital, Wellington, and chewed through the fiber optic cable."

Last February, Hungry field mice caused a 20-hour telephone blackout in central Sweden, after gnawing through cables

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