{"id":110413,"date":"2016-01-28T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110413"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T08:08:12","slug":"south-africa-internet-hit-by-another-seacom-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/110413\/south-africa-internet-hit-by-another-seacom-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa internet hit by another Seacom outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has announced that is experiencing multiple outages on the terrestrial network across Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All our international connectivity through Egypt has been affected since 06:00GMT on the 28th January 2016,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The group said that repair teams are on site, and that it will continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide necessary updates.<\/p>\n<p>Local ISP, Smart Village sent a message to clients at 10h00 stating that is was currently affected by the\u00a0outage.<\/p>\n<p>It said that a break in the Seacom cable is resulting in slow international speed due to congestion of traffic over redundant routes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in a\u00a0week\u00a0that the cable operator has suffered a breakage in its systems.<\/p>\n<p>Internet users in the country were left frustrated on Thursday last week following a mass outage.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Seacom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/100762\/we-have-enough-international-connectivity-seacom-ceo\/\">We have enough international connectivity: Seacom CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa internet hit by Seacom outage\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/109751\/south-africa-internet-hit-by-seacom-outage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa internet hit by Seacom outage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Internet has once again been hit by a breakage in the Seacom cable system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553,9882],"tags":[26,39],"class_list":["post-110413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110421,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110413\/revisions\/110421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}