The energy crisis has cost South African telcos billions

[mylesillidge]

Reality about power cuts in South Africa

Load-shedding has hit telcos hard, and even though Eskom has had a more stable electricity supply recently, the industry now has to battle load-reduction.

This was according to Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi in an interview with TechCentral.

 

[Bliksis]

 

[Lupus]

Why would the industry have to battle load reduction? Are they not paying?

 

[leon.davibe]

Why would the industry have to battle load reduction? Are they not paying?

their towers/infrastructure may be situated in areas that are subject to load reduction

 

[Bliksis]

their towers/infrastructure may be situated in areas that are subject to load reduction

Yeah I don't see how that doesn't make sense.