The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 7 hours within the outage window.
Note: In the event of a rollback, the entire outage window may be utilised.
Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:
Maintenance page/response will be displayed:
• Chorus Portal (SSP)
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• Fibre - Place API
Users will be unable to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• Fibre – Product Offering API
Users will be unable to view available products at an address.
• Fibre – Order Feasibility API
Users will be unable to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• Fibre – Manage Order API
Users will be unable to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• Fibre – Manage Appointment API
Users will be unable to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.
• Fibre – Order Notification API
Users will not receive notifications about updates or changes to an order or active service.
• Assurance Website/Assurance API
Users will be unable to test or log faults tickets on fibre services.
• Line Test API
Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable.
Overnight ONT data will not be updated:
• Chorus Portal will not be updated with the overnight ONT data until the change has been completed.
Service Company Impacts:
Maintenance page/response will be displayed:
• Chorus Portal (SSP)
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• TechMate
Users will be unable to test Fibre services. When searching a Fibre ASID this will generate: error code 99 timeout, server busy.
• Netmap
Users may receive an error while carrying out feasibility requests.
WRM features that will be impacted:
• RSP Initiated Appointments Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil.
• RSP Initiated Work Request Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil.
• RSP/Chorus Initiated Customer Order Management Unavailable.
• Fibre COM initiated notification to Service Companies will not occur.
• Service Company based customer order updates from WRM to FCOM on to RSPs will be impacted.
• Work Request Manager Fibre Fulfil Updates to FCOM (are not impacted unless components in the COM are unavailable).
This planned outage is required to carry out a software upgrade on a supporting system.
Posted on
Aug 03, 2026 - 13:25 NZST
Update -
Update as at 29/07 10:08
This planned work has been rescheduled to 08/09/2026 22:00 - 09/09/2026 05:00.
Jul 29, 2026 - 10:26 NZST
Scheduled -
The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 1.5 hours within the outage window.
Note: In the event of a rollback, the entire outage window may be utilised.
Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• Assurance Website & Assurance API: Users will be unable to perform copper line testing (including copper voice services).
• Network Events Portal and Network Events API: Any new, update or clearance may not display.
• Planned and Unplanned Network Event Email Notifications (Whispir) may be impacted and will queue and process once connectivity is restored.
• Line Test API: Copper line testing functionality will be unavailable
• Wireline/OOT & Wireline B2B will be unavailable
Service Company Impacts:
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• TechMate
Users will be unable to carry out copper line testing.
This outage is required to carry out an upgrade of a supporting firewall.
Jul 16, 2026 - 09:07 NZST