{"id":19151,"date":"2011-03-17T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-17T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:50:00","slug":"more-seacom-downtime-frustrates-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/19151-more-seacom-downtime-frustrates-isps.html","title":{"rendered":"More SEACOM downtime frustrates ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/17071-SEACOM-outages-and-cable-progress.html\">SEACOM has been dogged by downtime<\/a> over the past year, and the cable system&rsquo;s problems do not seem to end.<\/p>\n<p>Last night SEACOM clients started reporting downtime just before 23:30, with problems on a terrestrial part of the SEACOM system shouldering the blame.<\/p>\n<p>Early indications are that it is not an undersea cable break on SEACOM which is responsible for the latest downtime, but rather issues on the route between Alexandria and Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>The latest SEACOM downtime has yet again impacted local broadband consumers with many ADSL users reporting a slowdown in international access or even a total blackout in international Internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Industry players are not impressed. One SEACOM client said that they must really get off this cable system as the &ldquo;failure rate is ridiculous&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have also been raised about refunds from SEACOM during these outages.&nbsp; One service provider pointed out that the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/13557-SEACOM-downtime-How-you-are-affected.html\">five week outage on SEACOM<\/a> was deemed an &lsquo;act of God&rsquo;, and therefore no refund was forthcoming despite the impact on their business.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM was contacted for information about the downtime which started last night, but the company did not provide any feedback by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/319691-More-downtime-on-SEACOM-cable\"><strong>SEACOM downtime<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Give your feedback here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM experiences downtime, starting from just before midnight last night, which is most likely caused by terrestrial cable problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151"}],"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=19151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}