{"id":8786,"date":"2009-07-14T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-14T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:22:00","slug":"cable-break-causes-internet-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/8786-cable-break-causes-internet-chaos.html","title":{"rendered":"Cable break causes Internet chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Telkom cable break in the Gauteng region is causing slow throughput and downtime formany broadband users.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that the cable break &ndash; an underground 144 optic fibre cable &#8211; occurred 1.83kms from Telkom&#8217;s Halfway House exchange.&nbsp; This cable break was caused by &ldquo;contract personnel working in the vicinity&rdquo; of the underground optic fibre cable.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that links to certain Mobile Cellular Operators have been affected by the break.&nbsp; This is confirmed by feedback from Vodacom and iBurst.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182008\">Vodacom has informed consumers<\/a><\/strong> that some subscribers will be affected by the Telkom network problems and that a few Vodacom sites in the area of the cable break are down. <\/p>\n<p>iBurst said that their network has been directly influenced by the cable break, and despite re-routing the traffic many users may still experience intermittent connectivity problems and high latency.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that it anticipates that the estimated time of recovery will be after 17:00. &ldquo;Our technicians are currently busy with the repair and restoration process on site while personnel at the NNOC are currently diverting call traffic, where possible, to alternate cable routes,&rdquo; said Ajith Bridgraj, Telkom&#8217;s Senior Specialist for Media Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182027\">Telkom cable break<\/a><\/strong> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom cable break in Gauteng causes downtime and slow throughput on various broadband services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786"}],"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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}