Alice Neville - NZ Herald

Vodafone internet users were cut off this afternoon after a fire at the SkyTower in central Auckland.

Vodafone spokesman Paul Brislen said a small fire at the comms room in the SkyTower - possibly caused by a generator blowing up - shut off power and as the tower was evacuated, no one was allowed back in to turn on the back-up generator.

The outage meant Vodafone users were unable to connect to broadband and mobile data for about an hour this afternoon.

Mr Brislen said other service providers who used the SkyTower would have also been affected by the outage.

Services were now running as usual, he said.