In plain English
This is a forecast of when service should be back. It gives a specific date and time for the expected return of disrupted telecommunications service after an outage or fault.
In context
In the outage notice, this term labels the predicted date and time when the disrupted telecommunications service is expected to return after the reported outage or fault.
- Situation
- Responding to outages, degraded service, diagnostics, support tickets, and restoration updates
- What it communicates
- labels the projected return time shown in the outage notice.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not guarantee that restoration will happen at that exact moment.
Examples
“After the outage, the estimated restoration time was 18:30, but the phone service did not return until after 20:00.”
“The outage notice gives an estimated restoration time of 06:00 tomorrow for the disrupted phone service.”