South Africa’s mobile networks have pleaded with government to help them deal with the strain load-shedding places on their operations.
South Africa’s mobile network operators have asked government for a diesel rebate and permission to collaborate on sharing power sources and security at their towers.
ACT warned this would make it increasingly difficult for mobile network operators to keep people and businesses connected, despite their already substantial investments in backup power and network resilience.“Naturally, these investments could have been better spent on accelerating rural coverage, fast-tracking 5G adoption and further addressing the cost to communicate in South Africa,” ACT said.
ACT asked government to consider providing a diesel rebate for all the fuel operators are burning to power their infrastructure.“Our members have been forced to reallocate their annual expenditure to deal with load-shedding, which is unsustainable in the long term given the high cost of diesel,” ACT stated.
“The economic sabotage of physical infrastructure continues to have a significant impact on mobile network operators in South Africa,” ACT stated. It also asked that government relax regulatory obligations that are arduous to comply with in the current environment.
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