I don't know how many other people were affected, but today I was up in Wanganui on business, and ringing from a Telecom line, I got disconnected signals on both my Wgton VFX numbers.  I was able to call my Wgton Telecom fax line okay.

Tech support said it was due to a central NI Telecom fault eta to be fixed 6 pm.

The problem with these sorts of faults is that no-one can normally contact you to tell you there is a fault!  Anyone know how common these issues are?  Are they diminishing in frequency?