{"id":26985,"date":"2011-06-17T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=26985"},"modified":"2011-06-17T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:12:26","slug":"vodacom-network-problems-caused-by-cable-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/26985-vodacom-network-problems-caused-by-cable-break.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom network problems caused by cable break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous Vodacom subscribers started experiencing network problems at around 10:30 on Friday, 17 June 2011, affecting both voice and data services.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom\u2019s <a title=\"Richard Boorman\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/244557-Richard-Boorman\">Richard Boorman<\/a> confirmed that voice and data subscribers in some areas in Gauteng were influenced by the network problems today.<\/p>\n<p>Initial feedback suggests that a cable break in the Germiston area is to blame for the network problems.<\/p>\n<p>The break was apparently caused by a construction works contractor not associated with Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>The cable break seems to be severe, which means that a full cable replacement is needed to restore this part of the network.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is now being re-routed around the affected cable which means that services in the affected areas are coming back online.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom apologized for the inconvenience, reassuring their customers that their network team is working as fast as they can to repair all services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom is experiencing network problems in Gauteng affecting both voice and data customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[1217,35,1167,41],"class_list":["post-26985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-cable-break","tag-headline","tag-richard-boorman","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26985"}],"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=26985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26987,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26985\/revisions\/26987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}