Weeks without phone or internet as NBN rollout severs cables

By Adam Turner
Updated August 29 2016 - 12:18am, first published August 26 2016 - 11:09am
Businesses and homes have been knocked offline around the country as a result of NBN work.
Businesses and homes have been knocked offline around the country as a result of NBN work.

The NBN rollout continues to accidentally rip through phone lines, leaving homes and business without internet or a dial tone for up to weeks at a time, as the broadband network extends across the country.