Telcos feeling pressure of sustained levels of loadshedding

As South Africa’s persistent loadshedding shows no signs of abating, the country’s telecommunications companies are having to ramp up mitigation measures in an effort to keep consumers connected. State-owned power utility Eskom continues to implement staggered power cuts in various stages in an effort to maintain the national electricity grid, with data from loadshedding tracking application EskomSePush showing that the planned power cuts were implemented on a total of 43 days, or 1 029 hours, during 2023, as at February 13.