{"id":345899,"date":"2020-04-01T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=345899"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:36:29","slug":"telkom-website-and-mobile-network-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/345899-telkom-website-and-mobile-network-downtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom website and mobile network downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telkom users are reporting problems with the mobile operator’s mobile network, and the company’s website is currently unavailable.<\/p>\n

Downdetector<\/strong><\/a> has reported a spike in Telkom network problems since 11:30 on Wednesday 1 April.<\/p>\n

Many customers are reporting issues with mobile and landline Internet, LTE products, and their ADSL connections.<\/p>\n

Some Telkom customers reported that their inbound Telkom emails were delayed, with outbound emails still working as normal.<\/p>\n

The Downdetector map shows that the majority of reports stem from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Telkom’s website was also down, returning a 504 Gateway Timeout error when users tried to access it.<\/p>\n

Telkom did not immediately provide comment on what caused this outage or when it expected the issues with its services to be resolved.<\/p>\n

The image below shows the spike in Downdetector reports for Telkom since 11:30 on Wednesday 1 April.<\/p>\n

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