{"id":156203,"date":"2016-02-23T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=156203"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:18:38","slug":"telkom-mobile-network-suffering-downtime-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/156203-telkom-mobile-network-suffering-downtime-reports.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Mobile network downtime &#8211; what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Telkom has stated that a signalling issue on a fibre link in Rosebank was the cause of temporary downtime on its\u00a0network.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said services on its network have now been restored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telkom users are reporting connectivity issues with\u00a0the company&#8217;s mobile network in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Twitter posts, Telkom&#8217;s mobile network is down completely for some users &#8211; with no calls going through and no data connectivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/telkom-mobile\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Down Detector&#8217;s Telkom Mobile page<\/strong><\/a> shows reports of network issues spiking at around 11:00 on 23 February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Downdetector.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-156205 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Downdetector-640x234.jpg\" alt=\"Downdetector\" width=\"640\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Downdetector-640x234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Downdetector-768x281.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Downdetector.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/155825-dont-give-telkom-r744-million-broadband-contract-without-a-tender-vodacom-cell-c.html\">Don\u2019t give Telkom R744-million broadband contract without a tender: Vodacom, Cell C<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/155382-telkom-and-broadband-infraco-in-talks.html\">Telkom and Broadband Infraco in talks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom users reported connectivity issues with the company&#8217;s mobile network in some parts of the country &#8211; this is what caused the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,1745,109],"class_list":["post-156203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-network-downtime","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203"}],"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=156203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156211,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions\/156211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}