Vodacom spent R1 billion on batteries in the last 6 months

How much electricity (kwh) does an average cell tower use in a day?
 
so is this why they try all these tricks to get you to sign up to R2 a day subscriptions, and blatently rob you for your airtime?

to keep their network online? with Battery theft, load shedding and Vandalism
 
eg2505 said:
so is this why they try all these tricks to get you to sign up to R2 a day subscriptions, and blatently rob you for your airtime?

to keep their network online? with Battery theft, load shedding and Vandalism
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I don't think so
 
Well Shameel, I can point you in the direction of four of your batteries.
A client of mine was bragging about his lekker "new" Leoch Li-Ions in his solar setup. I said straight away "Those are cell tower batteries - I saw them on Carte Blanche!"
The guy nearly had kittens - he had no idea. Said he bought them from a "friend" in his church.
 
why doesn't Vodacom/MTN simply go on Gumtree and simply bust all these people with Leoch batteries?
I mean just type in Leoch into gumtree and see how many you get.
 
eg2505 said:
why doesn't Vodacom/MTN simply go on Gumtree and simply bust all these people with Leoch batteries?
I mean just type in Leoch into gumtree and see how many you get.
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and for another thing, why dont the Supplier (Leoch) simply engrave all their batteries with who they were sold to from the start?
so a Vodacom/MTN or Cell C,

and since so many are out there already, have an amnesty program, bring in a Leoch battery and get R200, or R200 in airtime.
 
Ja well government/Eskom is not very concerned about electricity. It will be fixed when it's fixed attitude

So give the R2b expense to ANC...
 
eg2505 said:
and for another thing, why dont the Supplier (Leoch) simply engrave all their batteries with who they were sold to from the start?
so a Vodacom/MTN or Cell C,

and since so many are out there already, have an amnesty program, bring in a Leoch battery and get R200, or R200 in airtime.
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The ones I saw at this guy's place were indeed hand-engraved, on the brushed aluminium front face, with various codes. I'm sure they have a meaning to the original owners. Amongst the letters, numbers and slashes was 'voda', amongst other things.
 
Grouter said:
The ones I saw at this guy's place were indeed hand-engraved, on the brushed aluminium front face, with various codes. I'm sure they have a meaning to the original owners. Amongst the letters, numbers and slashes was 'voda', amongst other things.
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so an amnesty program, bring your mast batteries to Pick and pay and get a R100 voucher.
after that, time to catch these guys as its super simple, you have a leoch battery, jail time or heavy fine.
 
Grouter said:
The ones I saw at this guy's place were indeed hand-engraved, on the brushed aluminium front face, with various codes. I'm sure they have a meaning to the original owners. Amongst the letters, numbers and slashes was 'voda', amongst other things.
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You sure that was not Yoda ... :ROFL:
 
They spent f-all on batteries in our area...

As soon as load shedding kicked in, the Vodacom signal here would be gone.
 
David101 said:
Had to Google that :unsure:
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just check gumtree how many leoch batteries out there.
completely insane the nerve of these people to sell stolen mast batteries on Gumtree/OLX/FBmarketplace.
without shame really.

I mean what next, stolen cars/cellphones/appliances/people?
 
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