The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 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
Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable, however users will still be able to log faults.
• 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:
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• TechMate
Users will be unable to carry out fibre based line testing.
This planned outage is required to carry out a software upgrade on a supporting system.
Posted on
Mar 20, 2026 - 15:10 NZDT
The following systems and services will be impacted for up to the entire duration of the outage window.
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. However users will still be able to log copper faults.
• Line Test API
Copper line testing functionality will be unavailable.
• Copper Provisioning
No order activations or deactivations will be processed during the outage window.
Service Company Impacts:
Some features will be unavailable for use:
• TechMate
Users will be unable to carry out copper based line testing.
This planned outage is required to carry out patching on a supporting system.
Posted on
Mar 23, 2026 - 10:23 NZDT