{"id":155230,"date":"2016-02-15T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155230"},"modified":"2016-02-15T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:14:18","slug":"mtn-network-hit-by-connectivity-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155230-mtn-network-hit-by-connectivity-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN network hit by connectivity issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is suffering from connectivity issues, according to a tweet by the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently experiencing intermittent connection issues affecting some customers. Our engineers are working on resolving this ASAP,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTNza\" target=\"_blank\">said MTN<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several Facebook\u00a0and Twitter users complained about not being able to use their MTN data services, or access social media platforms via their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/mtn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Down Detector showed<\/strong><\/a> that complaints about MTN&#8217;s downtime spiked between 13:00 and 15:00 on 15 February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: MTN has provided feedback on the network outage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MTN is currently experiencing intermittent connection issues affecting approximately 1 million voice, SMS and data customers throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Our engineers are working on resolving all services, MTN will advise on when these connection issues have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>MTN sincerely apologises to its customers for any inconvenience caused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155122-mtn-signs-music-deal-with-sony.html\">MTN signs music deal with Sony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/154660-mtn-ordered-to-take-down-its-music.html\">MTN ordered to take down its music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is suffering from connectivity issues, according to a tweet by the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,2956,42],"class_list":["post-155230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-downtime","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155230"}],"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=155230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155242,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155230\/revisions\/155242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}