Kaunda Selisho

By Kaunda Selisho

Journalist


‘Is it load shedding?’ – Cell C customers angry over no network

A problem at one of Cell C's data centres left customers with no network for most of Saturday morning.


As if stage 1 load shedding wasn’t bad enough, Cell C customers were left with no network on Saturday morning and they wasted no time in taking to social media to air their frustrations.

According to MyBroadband, users on Cell C-backed MVNOs – such as FNB Connect – also reported that they were not receiving any service.

https://twitter.com/flenkm/status/1068794055356755969

https://twitter.com/Dutchie_NoMaD/status/1068810340689956864

https://twitter.com/TheBow_Hunter/status/1068809438075789312

https://twitter.com/MathandaNcube/status/1068803000540561408

After receiving a flood of complaints, the network provider took to Twitter to offer up an explanation stating that a problem at one of their data centres was affecting their network.

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