Major outage hits TPG, Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan customers amid wild NSW weather

Thousands of customers lose broadband access after power outage following widespread thunderstorms in Sydney and interstate

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One of Australia's largest internet providers has been hit with a major outage, leaving thousands businesses and individuals without broadband access.

In a statement on Monday evening, TPG Telecom said it was working to resolve a technical issue", which was causing disruption to its fixed broadband services for consumer and business customers.

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