470,000 Eskom customers must update their prepaid electricity meters daily for no one to be left behind

[Daniel Puchert]

Eskom prepaid meter final warning

Eskom spokesperson Daphne Mokwena has reiterated that the 24 November 2024 deadline for updating prepaid electricity meters cannot be extended.

Standards Transfer Specification (STS)-compliant meters that aren't updated by the deadline will become inoperable and no longer accept electricity tokens. These customers will suffer electricity losses once their credits run out.

 

[Death]

Okes are going to get spammed on those numbers

 

[bwana]

Prepaid. How plebeian.

 

[Quicks]

Going to be epic fun come 25th. When they find out most are probably people with illegal connection, tampered meters.

 

[Ashez7]

Chaos when it goes off for those illegal connections.

 

[now05ster]

Chaos as cats and dogs are raining down on us.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1859496399928275113

 

[RedViking]

Next article:
940 000 must update their prepaid meters every second day.

 

[Tantric Smurf]

The first token clears the cache that stores last 50 loaded tokens as the unit will not accept any token older than the oldest one in that list.

Would then this have meant I could have cleared the cache, reload some recent tokens, clear cache, reload, etc.

Only then do I do the full reset and bump.

 

[RedViking]

The first token clears the cache that stores last 50 loaded tokens as the unit will not accept any token older than the oldest one in that list.

Would then this have meant I could have cleared the cache, reload some recent tokens, clear cache, reload, etc.

Only then do I do the full reset and bump.

 

[Tantric Smurf]

 

[UB40]

470 000 of them don't care, they have bypassed their meters like @RedViking has

 

[justplain]

doublechecked my meter yesterday and confirmed compliant. Way too many people are going to find out the the hard way very soon.

 

[Longboi]

Prepaid. How plebeian.

Good for certain scenarios like leased property.

 

[Longboi]

doublechecked my meter yesterday and confirmed compliant. Way too many people are going to find out the the hard way very soon.

Mine said 22 instead of 2 when I checked on the Meter.

Not sure but I think it's updated - cos of the 3 x 20 digit codes I got a few months back when i recharged via banking app.

 

[porchrat]

Prepaid. How plebeian.

So much better than post paid. My muni can't muck up the billing process and charge me R180 000 for electricity for a month then threaten to cut me off if I don't pay.

 

[Skerminkel]

Better stock up on the popcorn for Sunday. Sputnik already confirmed that they expect more than two million illegal users will be cut off.

 

[TheChamp]

Mine said 22 instead of 2 when I checked on the Meter.

Not sure but I think it's updated - cos of the 3 x 20 digit codes I got a few months back when i recharged via banking app.

2, 2.2 or 22 should be fine, it could just not be intelligent enough to put a decimal point at the right place.

 

[I.am.Sam]

Chaos when it goes off for those illegal connections.

how would it go off

the illegal connections are mostly done straight to the power and not the box

 

[I.am.Sam]

my meter shows an EEEEEEE

but when i bought a voucher from some eskom place it said 2