Chorus will be implementing a level of change restriction on some parts of our network environment over the 2020 Christmas holiday period. This is being done to minimise the risk of customer impacting events occurring at a time of reduced staffing levels across our organisation and suppliers.

The Chorus holiday restriction period (brown-out) is defined as:

• START: 06am on Wednesday 23 December 2020
• END: 11pm on Thursday 14 January 2021

Network maintenance & fault restoration

• Chorus will continue to provide full fault restoration capability throughout the Christmas holiday period.
• Proactive maintenance will continue on-plan for the most part except for work carried out on equipment inside of Exchange sites and cabinets which will be restricted during the Christmas holiday period.

Colocation services (COLO)

• Restrictions will be in place for any build work in COLO areas, including the installation of sub-racks and racks or connection of new equipment to power/network services during the Christmas holiday period.
• There remain no restrictions during the break on Customers accessing their equipment in COLO areas for maintenance purposes.

Chorus network build

• All pre-agreed UFB and subdivision build work will continue as normal throughout the Christmas holiday period.
• Any build work that creates risk to the existing core and access network elements will be restricted and deferred until after the Christmas holiday period has ended.

Provisioning activity

• Provisioning activities will continue, although the number of technicians working through the Christmas holiday period will be reduced in-line with forecasted demand for provisioning work.

Escalations

• Chorus will continue to address escalations throughout the Christmas holiday period. Please refer to the Escalate app for more details. 

Work restriction calendar

Please contact your Service Delivery Manager with any queries or feedback.