Recent content by Marcan

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    Cell C says it carefully monitors WASP activity for abuse

    Telkom only recently installed Huawei transmission kit on the nearest tower, before it, the tower basically stood idle as Cell C removed it's aerials and transmission equipment early 2020. I bought a Prepaid Telkom SIM and 7.5 GB+ 7.5 GB bundle to test it out. So your remark that I simply...
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    Cell C says it carefully monitors WASP activity for abuse

    Yeah, Telkom is now the only cell network with two two towers in this small rural town. But still the network is completely unreliable. I've got a Telkom tower very near, visible from my bedroom, with a nice strong signal when it works. The two towers are down because of power issues for 3 and...
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    Electricity and energy minister tells Eskom that the end of double-digit price hikes is over

    No, LGE Local Government Elections Nov 2026.
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    South Africa does not impose special additional import taxes on electric vehicles except for imports from Europe and the UK

    This might be true, but there are a lot of additional benefits to changing to electric driving. Even charged mostly on grids, powered by fossil fueled electricity generation, it has been proven that driving electric vehicles is less of a burden on the environment. But driving EVs starts to make...
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    Evidence yet to surface of Eskom mafias, says chairman

    Around May 2023 the trade union NUM, part of Cosatu, and the major union at Eskom, admitted that around 80% of all Eskom staff was involved in theft, corruption or fraud. The remaining 20% just kept quiet, because they were afraid to stick their neck out. Silently condoning corruption, probably...
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    Cell C discloses data breach, says limited number of people's data exposed

    That's good, then their network isn't overloaded anymore. A Cell C customer for 17 years or so. They had the nearest tower, best signal, and when they closed that one down, Cell C technician installed an aerial on my roof, with signal booster. Can't complain about that. And their large prepaid...
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    Load-shedding could return in 2025 — energy expert

    Indeed, in many countries one can chose from a series of private energy companies, with different rates: fixed rates, TOU time of use tariffs, flexible or dynamic rates, prepaid or postpaid, just any package you fancy. Just like you can choose a mobile communications company of your chose, a d...
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    Mistakes at Eskom during Andre de Ruyter era

    What's RPM, MyBB and DI receiving from Luthuli House to produce this rubbish ?
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    Mteto Nyati says the private sector is still fundamentally reliant on Eskom

    100%, good articles, thanks.
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    Starlink cutoff chaos

    The need for Starlink is clearly proven by the obvious demand. SA should be a free country, where it shouldn't be very difficult to offer new innovative services or products. Unnecessary bureaucracy and delays, high administered costs, trade barriers, high import duties only hurt the long term...
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    Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France

    Detected as spam. On the Forum discussion side of it, somebody links a The Guardian article on this arrest and on Telegram, but it's very vague, lacks info. On other sites there is more info, stating that French authorities had long serious problems with Telegram as it has become THE network for...
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    Cell C’s plan to take on Telkom – and the top dogs

    Yeah, a Trojan Horse scenario by VC, wouldn't surprise me.
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    Which supermarket do you shop at the most?

    Pick n Pay all the way ! A few months back I happened to be in a Checkers on Sunday after lunch, and bought some take away food. The creamed spinach was rotten.
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    New nuclear power capacity on the cards for South Africa

    Ramokgopa puts brakes on nuclear power procurement process Electricity and energy minister says delay will ensure that everyone who wants to comment on the process has the opportunity to do so BL Premium Business Day.
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    New nuclear power capacity on the cards for South Africa

    Baseload is a completely outdated concept, read my comment below the article on Disqus. But indeed in the beginning of their "Energie Wende" the Germans were probably too emotional, irrational to so quickly decommission nuclear stations, before adequate RE had come in. They replaced it with coal...
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