“Battery theft and vandalism at cell phone towers are at a crisis level and this has reached a point where customers are affected, and operational impact is being experienced where the frequency of the load-shedding exceeds the capacity of the back-up devices,” O’Sullivan said
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Cell C also warned users who purchased limited-time bundles that it cannot refund these purchases if the data happens to be active over a period of load-shedding.
What surprises me is that criminals do not utilise black-outs more extensively.