The heavy rains across South Africa are wreaking havoc on roads and other infrastructure, and telecoms networks are also affected.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg reported that Telkom is experiencing an increase in network related faults during this period.<\/p>\n
Telkom previously explained that Gauteng, in particular, is predisposed to heavy rains as well as a high water table often resulting in the flooding of underground access infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Flooding could cause faults but it also restricts workmen from accessing the fault zone, causing delays in repair times.<\/p>\n
Telkom said that it is monitoring all critical sites, and that their technicians are working additional hours to address the problems.<\/p>\n
Last week Eskom introduced load shedding in certain areas to prevent collapse of the national power grid, also caused by the heavy rains.<\/p>\n
Eskom said that the pressure on its electricity supply was caused after their coal supplies for electricity generators became wet after the persistent rain.<\/p>\n
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