{"id":245371,"date":"2018-01-19T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245371"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T07:32:32","slug":"vodacom-voice-services-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/245371-vodacom-voice-services-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom voice services outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Vodacom said the issue has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vodacom subscribers across South Africa are reporting they are unable to make or receive calls.<\/p>\n<p>Outage Report South Africa is tracking over a hundred reports of issues on social media in the past 20 minutes, while Down Detector shows a spike of 325 reports at around 08:00 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vodacom voice calls down no incoming or outgoing calls,&#8221; one user <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StylesModise\/status\/954248738280701952\">reported on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, the network is down, but Vodacom is not communicating with its customers. I am also not able to make or receive calls,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marna65504138\/status\/954248616989941760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another Twitter user said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Call outage<\/h3>\n<p>Vodacom said it was aware that certain customers in Johannesburg were unable to make calls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our technicians are attending to the issue as a matter of urgency to restore normal service as soon as possible. Internet connectivity is unaffected. We apologise for the inconvenience,&#8221; said Vodacom.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Outage Report<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Outage-Report-Vodacom-19-Jan-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-245377\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Outage-Report-Vodacom-19-Jan-2018-375x430.jpg\" alt=\"Outage Report Vodacom - 19-Jan-2018\" width=\"375\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Outage-Report-Vodacom-19-Jan-2018-375x430.jpg 375w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Outage-Report-Vodacom-19-Jan-2018-349x400.jpg 349w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Outage-Report-Vodacom-19-Jan-2018.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Down Detector<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-245375\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018-473x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018-473x430.jpg 473w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018-440x400.jpg 440w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018-768x698.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Downdetector-Vodacom-outage-map-19-Jan-2018.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/243166-vodacom-hikes-price-of-250mb-data-bundle.html\">Vodacom hikes price of 250MB data bundle<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom subscribers are reporting they are unable to make or receive calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":231929,"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":[41],"class_list":["post-245371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245379,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371\/revisions\/245379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}