[ANALYSIS] Network vandalism: stopping us from connecting our people
The scale of the problem is enormous, and the cost of repairing and protecting our sites affects our ability to roll out connectivity in areas that need it most.
On the other hand, this is not the case of load shedding or multiple vandalised sites in a cluster area where a wide area is impacted as, neighbouring sites cannot “cover for each other”. In these cases, the vandalism will lead to outages on Telkom’s mobile network in that area. Last year we lost a total of 7 841 batteries. The money spent replacing those batteries could have been built 35-40 base stations, to give people better coverage.
As influencers in your communities, encourage your friends, families and neighbours to report any suspected site vandalism on the Telkom hotlines.
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