{"id":94975,"date":"2014-01-16T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=94975"},"modified":"2014-01-17T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T09:47:40","slug":"seacom-down-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/94975-seacom-down-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Seacom down in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Seacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">Seacom<\/a> announced via its social media channels that it is currently experiencing an outage on its South African backhaul between Mtunzini in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Midrand in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause is still under investigation,\u201d Seacom said.<\/p>\n<p>The undersea cable and transit provider said that it started mobilising all appropriate resources at 15:00 GMT and will continue to update customers.<\/p>\n<p>Update: At 18:00 Seacom said that &#8220;repair teams are on site and restoration is underway&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Update (17 January, 11:00):\u00a0Service on the SEACOM South African backhaul between Mtunzini in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Midrand in Gauteng has been restored.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More SA broadband news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/94875-telkoms-surprising-20mbps-40mbps-vdsl-numbers.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s surprising 20Mbps, 40Mbps VDSL numbers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/94628-lightspeed-100mbps-uncapped-fibre-service-here-soon.html\"><strong>Lightspeed 100Mbps uncapped fibre service here soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/93895-broadband-price-per-mbps-shocker-for-south-africa.html\"><strong>Broadband price per Mbps shocker for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/93887-broadband-value-in-south-africa-challenge-report.html\"><strong>Broadband value in South Africa challenge: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has announced that there is an outage on its South African backhaul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,317],"class_list":["post-94975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94975"}],"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=94975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}