MTN wants electrical engineers who have experience working with off-grid tower connectivity to contribute their skills to tackling the operator’s load-shedding challenges.
MTN hopes the national state of disaster over Eskom will allow it to bring in electrical engineers working in other African countries to help manage its towers during load-shedding.
“Under the national state of disaster, we will seek special dispensation around the visa regime to enable us to bring skill sets to manage sites that are largely off-grid.” “We are already sharing sites, and there is an opportunity to look at how to share power,” Mupita said.In that regard, mobile networks are hoping that the state of disaster will introduce special dispensations to allow them to work together,Vodacom spokesperson Byron Kennedy told the publication among the benefits that could bring is eliminating double- spending on generators at base stations and enabling sharing of batteries and other renewable energy solutions.
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