{"id":121854,"date":"2015-03-13T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T08:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=121854"},"modified":"2015-03-13T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:11:25","slug":"cell-c-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/121854-cell-c-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C network problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C has identified the problem affecting voice calls on its network.<\/p>\n

“Traffic management between our two major data centres was affected. A resolution has been put in place and customers should already be seeing an improved experience. Full service will be restored shortly,” said Cell C.<\/p>\n

Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C subscribers around the country are reporting that they are unable to make or receive calls on the network.<\/p>\n

Cell C said it is aware of the issue, and its technicians are working to fix it.<\/p>\n

“We are currently experiencing a call set-up issue which is preventing some calls from going through when customers are dialing a number,” said Cell C.<\/p>\n

“We apologise for the inconvenience.”<\/p>\n

Users have been reporting problems on the web, including Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

Twitter comment included: \u201cI can’t receive calls on Cell C\u2019s network\u201d; \u201cCan’t make calls, says System Busy\u201d; and \u201cWhat’s wrong with your call centres?\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mobile data connectivity for many users appears to be operating as normal.<\/p>\n

According to the website Downdetector<\/strong><\/a>, Cell C has been experiencing problems since early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Cell C down<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cell C\u2019s R2.4 billion network plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subscribers all over South Africa are reporting that they can’t make or receive calls on Cell C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,29346,35],"class_list":["post-121854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-cell-c-downtime","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121858,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121854\/revisions\/121858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}