In fact this was a clever move by Telecom to prevent there share price sliding with everyone wanting to sell up at the same time. :-) -----Original Message-----

"The fault, which happened around 10am, also crashed the New Zealand Stock Exchange..."

This is hyperbole, surely? I'd be fairly shocked if the NZSE internal systems themselves could be "crashed" by a fault in an external vendor. Access to the system from external points may be impacted, of course, but even then I'd have to do the Dance of Stupid[1] if the NZSE public and secure networks only used a single network provider for everything.