Mobile tower attacks during looting - what really happened

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Mobile tower attacks during looting - what really happened

South Africa’s mobile network operators have said that the impact of the looting and violence on their towers earlier in July was minimal.

Shortly after the unrest started, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) issued a statement that said 113 network towers had been vandalised in the country.

Many reports linked these outages directly to the violence, while some even suggested that mobile networks were prime targets leading up to the looting.

 

[charlieharper]

The Rain tower in my area already broke years ago..

 

[Kosmik]

Tell that to the folks who watched the Cell towers to protect them.

 

[Gazg]

The Rain tower in my area already broke years ago..

Pathetic!!

 

[DA-LION-619]

Tell that to the folks who watched the Cell towers to protect them.

It’s like this.
Media: Network towers were attacked or ‘vandalised’.
Network Operators: We weren’t under attack, we just couldn’t access towers so ‘indirectly’ there was outages due to the riots.

Last I checked a DDoS is a form of cyber-ATTACK.

 

[j4ck455]

Cell C did not receive any reports of vandalised or damaged network towers.

That from a company that has been trying to get rid of its own network infrastructure.