MTN deploys over 20 000 battery backups on network
Africa’s biggest mobile operator MTN says it has achieved significant milestones to keep customers connected amid SA’s load shedding crisis, with the deployment of more than 20 000 batteries, 5000 rectifiers and around 900 generators at its network sites across the country.
This is part of MTN South Africa’s investment of up to R5 billion into its network, to not only mitigate load shedding but to boost ‘network resilience’ in the face of increased theft and vandalism which ‘remains a concern’ for the group.