{"id":34598,"date":"2011-09-23T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34598"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:38:17","slug":"vodacom-service-problems-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/34598-vodacom-service-problems-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom service problems explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Summary:<\/span> Home Location Register downtime left Vodacom subscribers in various parts of the country without cellular services on Friday morning (23 September 2011).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Numerous <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> subscribers reported problems with their voice and data services this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints came from consumers across the country, including Durban, Johannesburg, Centurion and Heidelberg.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom spokesperson <a title=\"Richard Boorman\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/244557-Richard-Boorman\">Richard Boorman<\/a> explained that one of the company\u2019s Home Location Registers (HLR) experienced downtime from around 08:00 this morning which left subscribers using this register without cellular services.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was resolved at around 09:00, after which subscribers starting coming back online.<\/p>\n<p>Boorman advised anyone who is still struggling with access to the Vodacom network to switch their phone off and on again, which should restore full access to the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous Vodacom subscribers were left without services this morning; Vodacom explains the problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,1167,41,5064],"class_list":["post-34598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-richard-boorman","tag-vodacom","tag-vodacom-network-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598"}],"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=34598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34600,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598\/revisions\/34600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}