Openreach MBORC Declaration
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| MBORC declaration for repair activities |
This MBORC declaration notification is issued as a special message to all Openreach customers following the recent severe weather experienced in the UK. |
| MB14000 Many parts of the UK were hit with severe storm conditions, with extensive lightning strikes, from the end of last week and over the weekend of 4 and 5 July 2015. This seriously impacted Openreach’s infrastructure, both above and below ground, with fault intake in the affected areas at extremely high levels. Openreach declared MBORC for repair activities in a number of areas, on 8 July 2015: Openreach is now declaring MBORC for repair activities in a further area, with effect from 23:59 9 July 2015:West Yorkshire
MBORC remains open in the following areas: MB14000 Highlands and Islands North East Scotland South East Scotland Durham and Tees Valley South Yorkshire Derby & Nottingham Leicester Coventry Peterborough Bournemouth Broadlands St. Albans Truro We have been taking steps, including directing additional resource into all of these areas, to bring the position back to normal as quickly as possible. We are monitoring the situation and will remove MBORC as soon as service can be restored to the levels they were at immediately before the severe weather. |
