"Telkom didn't pay me again, so I turned off their cellphone tower"

[Bradley Prior]

"Telkom didn't pay me again, so I turned off their cellphone tower"

A MyBroadband reader has switched off the Telkom cellphone tower on his property after the mobile network failed to pay him for the electricity to run the infrastructure.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Telkom just like government... useless at doing proper work.

 

[Thor]

Telkom is Telkom, I do not expect anything less.

 

[now05ster]

I remember the previous article posted about this fiasco. I am sorry that Telkom couldn't put sufficient preventative actions in place to prevent this from reoccurring.

EDIT: I am also shocked to see this:

No comment from Telkom

 

[Willie Trombone]

Pay your electricity bill Telkom
It's the right thing to do (TM)

 

[Ninja'd]

Telkom just like government... useless at doing proper work.

I can take heed of your words because you appear to be a very impartial fellow.

 

[Peon]

Eskom should thank this property owner. He is fostering a culture of no payment no service.

 

[Apogee]

Contracts mean nothing these days.

People are quick to sign them and make promises, but then don't honor their part of the agreement.

 

[Peon]

Contracts mean nothing these days.

People are quick to sign them and make promises, but then don't honor their part of the agreement.

Agreed thats why this property owner is teaching Telkom the virtues of discipline.

 

[Magnum]

Good for him. Telkom does the same with their Customers.

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

I guess now we know why the country's management is in such chaos.

 

[reactor_sa]

Good for him. Telkom does the same with their Customers.

Then he should also have them blacklisted for being 3months in arrears

 

[ThinkCentre]

Can you not take the tower down and return it to the rightful owner?

 

[wingnut771]

Can you not take the tower down and return it to the rightful owner?

Work smart, not hard.

 

[Kornhub]

lol we did the same for a tower at work. Amazing how fast they paid.

 

[chakniks]

However, Telkom has reportedly not paid the correct amounts for the electricity required to run the cellphone tower since the beginning of the COVID-19 national lockdown, the owner told MyBroadband.

This property owner is also too indulgent , how can he only switch it off yesterday when they have not been paying for so long? Considering that they have done this before, he should just proceed to switch it off as soon as possible

 

[wingnut771]

This property owner is also too indulgent , how can he only switch it off yesterday when they have not been paying for so long? Considering that they have done this before, he should just proceed to switch it off as soon as possible

He should charge a deposit and re-connection fee.

 

[Danie_V]

5G Is going to mean many more towers, most of which will be on private buildings. How does an even higher volume of such leases get paid for on time. I can see lots of 5G outages coming up for SA ;-)

 

[RandomGeek]

"No comment from Telkom
Telkom did not respond to a request for comment sent by MyBroadband."

Of course they couldn't...they didn't have any signal...because the tower was off!