{"id":186541,"date":"2016-11-10T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=186541"},"modified":"2016-11-10T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T11:00:54","slug":"mtn-data-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/186541-mtn-data-network-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN data network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: MTN said its network is back online, following the data outage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MTN subscribers around South Africa are\u00a0reporting they are unable to\u00a0use data services on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Posts on Twitter and DownDetector suggest the issue is affecting MTN&#8217;s network across\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t send or receive WhatsApps but I have data. Please fix this,&#8221; one subscriber said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No LTE\/3G in Cape Town, also purchased more data as I thought that&#8217;s the issue&#8230;great way of wasting money&#8230;&#8221;, said another.<\/p>\n<p>User feedback can\u00a0be seen on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/mtn\" target=\"_blank\">DownDetector<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%40mtnza&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter @MTNza<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%40mtnzaservice&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter @MTNzaService<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/184238-mtn-south-africas-subscriber-numbers-drop-new-group-ceo-coming-soon.html\">MTN South Africa&#8217;s subscriber numbers drop, new Group CEO coming soon<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN subscribers have been hit by a data outage, affecting users all over South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,42],"class_list":["post-186541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541"}],"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=186541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186551,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541\/revisions\/186551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}