{"id":1992,"date":"2007-11-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-16T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:23:00","slug":"vodacom-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/1992-vodacom-blackout.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Vodacom subscriber feedback their cellular service was unavailable in Sandton, Bryanston, Northcliff, Randburg, Pretoria and various other regions. <\/p>\n<p>Vodacom confirmed that one of their servers providing prepaid services was struck by&nbsp;lightning earlier today. The Vodacom Engineering team has corrected this problem &ndash; however, it did create a backlog of recharges.<\/p>\n<p>An unrelated problem was experienced in the greater Sandton area earlier today where Vodacom customers may have had difficulty receiving calls. This problem has been corrected, Vodacom said.<\/p>\n<p>A small percentage of Vodacom customers could however still be sporadically affected, the cellular provider said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=94315\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom clients today experienced a blackout in various areas of Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}