Reporting power failures in Pretoria

[nicroets]

It is possible to report power failures by SMS. Just send the word "power" followed by your municipal account number to 082-612-0333. If you have prepaid electricity, you can send "power" and the serial number of the prepaid device. They have computer systems that can display all the locations on a map. So the more people SMS, the faster they can determine what component failed or tripped.

It took a bit of searching, but here is the original article:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sms-facility-set-up-to-solve-power-gripes-1.443380

 

[grok]

So now we have to do their monitoring for them? What have become of once functioning municipalities? Oh yeah .. the ANC.