Cellphone towers are crippled by load shedding – and theft of at least 200 batteries each month

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Article highlights:

– The rampant theft of back-up batteries used to power cellphone towers during electricity disruptions shows no signs of slowing down.

– One of South Africa’s biggest telecommunications providers, MTN, reports losing 200 batteries every month.

– Vodacom records “several hundred cases of battery theft and base station vandalism per month.”