{"id":8803,"date":"2009-07-15T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-15T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:11:00","slug":"telkom-cable-break-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8803-telkom-cable-break-restored.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom cable break restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Broadband\/8786.html\">Telkom cable break<\/a> which occurred 1.83kms from Telkom&#8217;s Halfway House exchange yesterday at 08:40 caused problems for many broadband subscribers, including Vodacom HSDPA and iBurst subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that their surveillance personnel detected the break almost immediately when the incident occurred around 08:40 yesterday morning and technical personnel were dispatched to commence physical fibre restoration shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The first transmission link was restored at 15:35 yesterday afternoon and the last transmission link that was carried on the broken fibre was restored at 02:23 this morning,&rdquo; Telkom said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182008\">Vodacom confirmed that services have been restored<\/a> for their users and that &lsquo;everything should run as normal&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/8803.html\"><strong>Telkom network problems<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom restores fibre cable break in Halfway House which caused Internet chaos in Gauteng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803"}],"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=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}