{"id":209178,"date":"2017-05-04T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209178"},"modified":"2017-05-04T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:54:25","slug":"mtn-network-suffering-mobile-data-problems-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/209178-mtn-network-suffering-mobile-data-problems-reports.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN network suffering mobile data problems &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN&#8217;s network in South Africa was hit by issues this morning, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/mtn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Down Detector<\/strong><\/a> showed that hundreds of down time reports were submitted between 06:00 and 07:00.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrihost.com\/site\/network_status#tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Afrihost stated<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it received reports from users that the Afrihost mobile and MyMTN APN settings were not allowing them to connect to mobile data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working with our upstream provider to address this as quickly as possible. Affected clients will not be able to use any online services until the issue is resolved,&#8221; said Afrihost.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Update: MTN &#8211; Intermittent network disruption<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;MTN can confirm that it is experiencing an intermittent network disruption across the country which is affecting data services,&#8221; said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our engineers are working fervently to restore connectivity. MTN will provide an update progress during the course of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN apologises unreservedly to its customers for any inconvenience caused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Connectivity restored &#8211; 09:30<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;MTN can confirm that intermittent data connectivity issues experienced this morning have been resolved and mobile data has now been restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, some of our enterprise customers are still experiencing connectivity challenges. Our engineers are working hard to bring them back online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Update &#8211; 11:50<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;MTN can confirm that intermittent data connectivity issues experienced this morning have been resolved and all mobile data and Enterprise Business Unit services have been restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/209042-mtn-subscribers-in-south-africa-spending-more-money.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN subscribers in South Africa spending more money<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN&#8217;s network in South Africa was hit by issues this morning, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146213,"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":[3610,42],"class_list":["post-209178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-mobile-data","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209178"}],"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=209178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209192,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209178\/revisions\/209192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}