📱💻🌐 Vodacom has revealed the shocking impact that constantly elevated levels of loadshedding are wreaking on the country’s mobile networks. Full story here ⤵️
In the last two quarters , the average grid availability to its more than 9 550 towers has been around 67%. This means that at any given point in time around a third of its sites are not being supplied by power from Eskom or municipalities.
Coupled with this is the fact that demand for mobile data soars during load shedding. It says data traffic grew by 45% in the first three months of this year.Infrastructure that is already under strain has to deal with this increased demand, which it says is “incrementally challenging as load shedding stages increase”.
This will allow it to source electricity from independent renewable power producers. The complexity of its network – with more than 15 000 low-voltage sites in 168 municipalities – has prevented it from using standard wheeling to procure power from renewable generators.
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