Chorus Urgent Planned ICT Event Notification: CR5947179

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Chorus NZ API

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted May 15, 2026 - 23:30 NZST

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted May 15, 2026 - 21:00 NZST

Scheduled

The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 1 hour within the outage window.
Note: In the event of any issues encountered during the deployment, 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 and Copper line testing functionality will be unavailable, however users will still be able to log faults.
• Line Test API
Fibre and Copper 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 and copper based line testing.

This urgent planned outage is required for backend operating system patching to resolve a current known vulnerability issue.
Posted May 15, 2026 - 12:02 NZST
This scheduled maintenance affected: APIs (Assurance API, Line Test API - Fibre Services, Line Test API - Copper Services), Service Partner Websites and APIs (Tech Mate (Testing Fibre Services), Tech Mate (Testing Copper Services)), and Websites (Assurance (Testing Fibre Services), Assurance (Testing Copper Services)).