{"id":9023,"date":"2009-07-31T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-31T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:33:00","slug":"sat-3-cable-fault-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9023-sat-3-cable-fault-details.html","title":{"rendered":"SAT-3 cable fault details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A problem on the SAT-3 cable this week caused large parts of West Africa to struggle with connectivity to the rest of the world.&nbsp; Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria all experienced downtime and had to revert to satellite bandwidth to get connected again.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom confirmed that a cable fault approximately 25km off the Benin coast line has been identified as the reason for the problems.&nbsp; &ldquo;The branch on which the cable fault has been diagnosed impacts all services to and through Benin,&rdquo; said Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the maintenance operations to mobilise the cable ship have been initiated by the relevant Maintenance Authority, which is Benin Telecom in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for local Internet users is that they were unaffected by this fault.&nbsp; &ldquo;Telkom SA confirms that the rest of the SAT-3 system is unaffected by this fault. It is to be noted that Telkom SA&rsquo;s customers are also being served by the SAT-3\/WASC, SAFE and SAT-2 submarine cables,&rdquo; Telkom concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=184854\">SAT-3 cable fault<\/a><\/strong> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local SAT-3 customers unaffected by cable fault off Benin coast line<\/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-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023"}],"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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}