Cricket Australia (CA) has apologised after an embarrassing technology issue left the television broadcasters' live feed interrupted by a power failure.
Day four's action at the Gabba stopped for approximately 15 minutes on Saturday morning, during which time Fox Sports, the Seven Network and TV stations around the world had no cricket to show.
The situation improved slightly, with one camera in use for a short period, before normal service resumed.
Play continued throughout the disruption, albeit under conditions of a bygone era, in which there was no third umpire.
CA chief executive Nick Hockley apologised for the mishap.
"I just want to apologise to all the fans out there," Hockley told ABC Sport.
"I just want to say thank you to everyone working extremely hard to get that back up and running as quickly as possible and again, can only say sorry to all the fans."
CA has confronted a series of globally embarrassing technology issues in this match.
It emerged on Thursday that the third umpire was not monitoring no-balls at the Gabba, with England's Ben Stokes the beneficiary after several of his "illegal" deliveries went unpunished.
On Friday, Australia were frustrated by the absence of a key tool in the Decision Review System (DRS).
CA said its Snickometer — which uses a sensitive microphone to try to detect whether a batter has edged the ball — was offline during this Test because Queensland's border restrictions made it impossible to quickly fix the problem.
The full suite of DRS devices is expected to be used during the second Test, which begins at Adelaide Oval on Thursday.
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