{"id":27768,"date":"2024-04-16T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-technology\/optical-fixed-networks\/16559-laying-the-groundwork-how-africa-handled-its-subsea-cable-crisis.html"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:20:39","slug":"laying-the-groundwork-how-africa-handled-its-subsea-cable-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=27768","title":{"rendered":"Laying the groundwork: how Africa handled its subsea cable crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Features\/angola_cables_landfall_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Within the space of a month, <a href=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-technology\/optical-fixed-networks\/16421-connectivity-down-due-to-subsea-cable-damage-in-africa-2.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">Africa experienced two extraordinary cable disruptions <\/a>that led to internet outages in at least 11 countries across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the space of a month, Africa experienced two extraordinary cable disruptions that led to internet outages in at least 11 countries across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-optical-fixed-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27771,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions\/27771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}