{"id":287820,"date":"2018-12-01T15:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=287820"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:02:58","slug":"free-data-for-cell-c-users-after-massive-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/287820-free-data-for-cell-c-users-after-massive-network-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Free data for Cell C users after massive network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C is giving customers 1GB of free data to apologise for <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/287810-why-cell-cs-network-went-down.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>network downtime<\/strong><\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to thank our customers for their patience during the unprecedented network outage earlier today,&#8221; it said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CellC\/status\/1068836046924845056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To show our appreciation, we will provide each customer with 1GB of data valid for 5 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will notify you of when data will be loaded. Again, our sincere apologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cell C&#8217;s network went down after the Neotel Data Centre experienced a power surge due to load shedding, which tripped the air-conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This resulted in the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) system, that enables the routing of traffic on the network, to overheat and power down.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/287794-telkom-big-deal-70gb50gb-lte-for-r459.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom Big Deal \u2013 70GB+50GB LTE for R459<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C is giving customers 1GB of free data to apologise for network downtime today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":262635,"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":[355,45508],"class_list":["post-287820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-free-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287820"}],"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=287820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287822,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287820\/revisions\/287822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}