{"id":234679,"date":"2026-05-28T04:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-telecom-admits-to-broadband-blunders\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:58:57","slug":"namibia-telecom-admits-to-broadband-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-telecom-admits-to-broadband-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Telecom Admits to Broadband Blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Telecom Namibia has acknowledged that widespread broadband and mobile service disruptions are linked to infrastructure challenges after being summoned by the communications regulator over recurring failures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) last week asked the network service provider to explain the disruptions which have reportedly negatively impacted consumers, businesses and institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Cran chief executive Emilia Nghikembua on Friday said the regulator is also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605270289.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom Namibia has acknowledged that widespread broadband and mobile service disruptions are linked to infrastructure challenges after being summoned by the communications regulator over recurring failures. The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) last week asked the network service provider to explain the disruptions which have reportedly negatively impacted consumers, businesses and institutions. Cran chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[7988,258,256,17356,15970,4706,724,257,254,13292],"class_list":["post-234679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blunders","tag-broadband","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-telecom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}