{"id":232975,"date":"2017-10-12T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=232975"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:34:41","slug":"severe-weather-impacts-openserve-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/232975-severe-weather-impacts-openserve-infrastructure.html","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather impacts Openserve infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe weather in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has resulted in a significant increase in network faults, said Openserve.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that the weather has &#8220;wreaked havoc&#8221; on infrastructure, and services in the West Rand in Gauteng have been\u00a0hit particularly hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is because Gauteng has a high water table which has led to flooding of Telkom\u2019s underground infrastructure,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flooding has restricted workmen from accessing the fault zone and will cause delays in repair times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The damage to infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal includes buildings, and indoor and outdoor core and access network infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overhead cables have also been affected, with [tree] branches breaking or falling onto overhead cables with resultant damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Openserve advised residents and businesses to report faults via their respective service providers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/232813-rain-mobile-is-coming-outsurance-ceo-to-lead-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rain Mobile is coming \u2013 Outsurance CEO to lead it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe weather in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has resulted in network faults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":183296,"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":[33386],"class_list":["post-232975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-openserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232975"}],"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=232975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232977,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232975\/revisions\/232977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}