{"id":40225,"date":"2011-12-22T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40225"},"modified":"2011-12-22T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T06:43:50","slug":"verizon-4g-network-crashes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/40225-verizon-4g-network-crashes-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon 4G Network crashes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-speed smartphone data service freshly rolled out by Verizon crashed anew on Wednesday as the US telecom titan continued to work out issues with its new-generation network.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Verizon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368408-Verizon\">Verizon<\/a> Wireless 4G <a title=\"Long term Evolution (LTE)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">LTE<\/a> data service disruption spread across the United States and lasted several hours but subscribers remained able to make voice calls and exchange text messages using smartphones on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon&#8217;s previous generation 3G data network continued to operate normally, according to the New York-based company.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide disruption was the second this month and prompted analysts to suspect that Verizon is grappling with unexpected engineering kinks in the trail-blazing 4G network it began rolling out a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon launched 4G service in December 2010, boasting that it delivers data as much as 10 times faster than <a title=\"3G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224878-3G\">3G<\/a> technology used by smartphones or tablet computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-speed smartphone data service freshly rolled out by Verizon crashed anew on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":34208,"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":[36,2490,2456],"class_list":["post-40225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-lte","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}