{"id":288638,"date":"2018-12-01T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288638"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:42:55","slug":"cell-c-free-data-giveaway-after-eskom-load-shedding-causes-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/288638\/cell-c-free-data-giveaway-after-eskom-load-shedding-causes-network-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C free data giveaway after Eskom load shedding causes network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C is providing customers with 1GB of free data to apologise for <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/287810-why-cell-cs-network-went-down.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>network downtime<\/strong><\/a> on Saturday (1 December), caused by Eskom load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to thank our customers for their patience during the unprecedented network outage earlier today,\u201d it said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CellC\/status\/1068836046924845056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo show our appreciation, we will provide each customer with 1GB of data valid for 5 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cell C said it would notify customers when the data will be loaded.<\/p>\n<p>The operator&#8217;s network went down after a Neotel Data Centre experienced a power surge, which tripped the air-conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>This was caused by Eskom&#8217;s latest load shedding schedule, which began again this week as the state-owned power company announced that it was cutting between 1,000 and 2,000 megawatts from the grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resulted in the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) system, that enables the routing of traffic on the network, to overheat and power down, Cell C said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/287870\/eskom-technically-bankrupt-as-debt-hits-r400-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom \u2018technically bankrupt\u2019 as debt hits R400 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C is providing customers with 1GB of free data as an apology for network downtime, caused by Eskom load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,26],"class_list":["post-288638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288638","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=288638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288642,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288638\/revisions\/288642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}