{"id":112709,"date":"2016-02-15T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=112709"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:07:45","slug":"mtn-network-downtime-affects-one-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/112709\/mtn-network-downtime-affects-one-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive MTN network downtime affects one million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN said in a statement on Monday afternoon (15 February), that it is experiencing intermittent connection issues affecting approximately one million voice, SMS and data customers throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our engineers are working on resolving all services, MTN will advise on when these connection issues have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN sincerely apologises to its customers for any inconvenience caused,&#8221; the operator said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155230-mtn-network-hit-by-connectivity-issues.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/mtn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Down Detector showed<\/strong><\/a> that complaints about MTN\u2019s downtime spiked between 13:00 and 15:00 on 15 February.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/111991\/mtn-hit-with-take-down-notice-over-unlicensed-music\/\">MTN hit with take-down notice over \u2018unlicensed\u2019 music<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/111855\/mtn-is-being-sued-again-in-nigeria\/\">MTN is being sued again in Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/111097\/mtn-brand-value-takes-a-beating\/\">MTN brand value takes a beating<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/104249\/sa-mobile-market-share-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom\/\">SA mobile market share: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN said in a statement on Monday afternoon, that it is experiencing intermittent connection issues affecting approximately one million voice, SMS and data customers throughout the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":109695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-112709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112709","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=112709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112723,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112709\/revisions\/112723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}