Telkom mobile network down

[dotcat]

TM Twitter "Dear customers, we are currently experiencing disruptions on our mobile voice and data network which may affect your connectivity. Our team of technicians are working on resolving this. We thank you for your patience and apologise for the inconvenience caused."

 

[ReeceDBN031]

My Telkom LTE seems to be working now but verrry slow

 

[cr@zydude]

Just imagine somewhere someone is trying to call for an Ambulance, Police or any sort of help but can't get through.

Unacceptable!

People are posting that there phones show that emergency calls can still be made.

 

[NeonNinja]

Maybe it's the battery theft surge.

 

[dotcat]

Maybe it's the battery theft surge.

Seems like they lost a link to Joburg:

192.168.89.1 (192.168.89.1) 5.174 ms 2.148 ms 5.487 ms
3 * * *
4 105-187-232-221.telkomsa.net (105.187.232.221) 559.967 ms 477.461 ms 562.491 ms
5 105-187-253-41.telkomsa.net (105.187.253.41) 584.520 ms 413.236 ms 481.095 ms
6 wblv-os-cer-1-wan.osnet.co.za (196.25.49.189) 568.631 ms 483.764 ms 473.193 ms
7 10.189.30.18 (10.189.30.18) 756.841 ms 674.397 ms 722.283 ms

what is osnet.co.za?

Everything seems to be going via CT

Old traceroute:

105-187-234-166.telkomsa.net (105.187.234.166) 23.332 ms 16.433 ms 19.244 ms
4 105-187-253-74.telkomsa.net (105.187.253.74) 19.882 ms 17.830 ms 18.986 ms
5 ndn-ip-hsll-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za (165.165.235.173) 18.972 ms 23.284 ms 28.564 ms
6 10.189.30.10 (10.189.30.10) 214.950 ms 206.618 ms 199.930 ms

 

[3Gee]

Back online in Cpt

 

[minkukel]

My Telkom Uncapped LTE is online and normal speed, my telkom mobile shows no service.

 

[3Gee]

Update. Seems that only certain parts of the country is back online

Calls to JHB still offline
East London and Cape Town back online

 

[cavedog]

People are posting that there phones show that emergency calls can still be made.

Shows Emergency calls only on my side and 112 does not work at all tried restarting device many times. Everyone at work on Telkom not working.

 

[Totempole]

Everything was fine for me until a few minutes ago. My SIM just died. No service.

 

[dotcat]

Now zero service

 

[Ockie]

Gosh....such bad timing. I am porting 6 lines from Telkom tonight for one of my business customers and they got really upset saying I did something and now their Telkom sims dont work and their Vodacom sims are not working yet either. I was looking for answers because ports only start going through from 18:00 every day. Sjoe....sent her a mail now and said it is a Telkom issue on their network and completely unrelated to the ports I am doing for them tonight.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Gosh....such bad timing. I am porting 6 lines from Telkom tonight for one of my business customers and they got really upset saying I did something and now their Telkom sims dont work and their Vodacom sims are not working yet either. I was looking for answers because ports only start going through from 18:00 every day. Sjoe....sent her a mail now and said it is a Telkom issue on their network and completely unrelated to the ports I am doing for them tonight.

Murphy is a bugger ...

 

[entrepr]

Unable to make or receive calls as well. Got a mini heart attack and thought my sim card got cloned or something.

Ha ha . I had the same. My first reaction was to check my bank account. Of course the app didn't work.

First since of a problem was actually at about 8.10, when I lost partial functionality.

 

[daveza]

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Both Vodacom and Telkom experienced network outages on Friday morning as prolonged load shedding take a toll at cellular towers.

When power to cellular towers is cut off, battery back-up kicks in - but Vodacom told Business Insider SA that these offer limited power and will eventually also fail.

Telkom, which has an agreement to roam on Vodacom’s network, said load shedding is affecting the network towers' back-up support.

 

[now05ster]

No issues for me in PE. That said, I haven't done a speed test.

Yeah, the internet she is now slow for me too.

 

[Binary_Bark]

LTE is online but a bit slow

 

[ActivateD]

It has gotten worse for me I cant even make phone calls anymore. They are roaming me to vodacom but still cannot make phone calls

 

[Totempole]

I'm back up again in the last 15 minutes. Also roaming on VC

 

[calypso]

Shows Emergency calls only on my side and 112 does not work at all tried restarting device many times. Everyone at work on Telkom not working.

If you take the SIM out it will probably work.