Vumatel is currently experiencing the following issue:
Start Date & Time:18/05/2026 @ 08:21
Affected Area: Roodekrans
Impact: Customers may experience no connectivity.
Vumatel technicians are currently investigating. There is no ETR at the moment.
Update (20/05/2026 08:28):
Vumatel confirmed that this outage was resolved on 19/05/2026 20:28. Please restart your devices and contact our Support Team should you still experience connection issues.
Update (19/05/2026 @ 14:39):
Remaining down services are being attended to
Update (19/05/2026 @ 14:38):
Associated tickets are being tested to ensure no further work is required
Update (19/05/2026 @ 10:21):
Please note Vumatel team is still currently onsite attending to all fallouts
Update (19/05/2026 @ 08:18):
Remaining down services are being attended to
Update (19/05/2026 @ 08:16):
Associated tickets are being tested to ensure no further work is required
Update (19/05/2026 @ 05:05):
Repairs on hold due to safety reasons
Update (19/05/2026 @ 01:00):
Remaining down services are being attended to
Update (19/05/2026 @ 00:55):
Associated tickets are being tested to ensure no further work is required
Update (18/05/2026 @ 22:42):
Splicing in progress, At the AG splicing is at T9, Joint 1 at T10 and Joint 2 at T11, and splicing at 80% done
Update (18/05/2026 @ 21:43):
Splicing in progress, at AG 144F on T3, Joint 1 on T5 and Joint 2 on T6, 40% splicing done
Update (18/05/2026 @ 20:29):
Splicing in progress, 2nd 144F is being spliced by the manhole AG on T1, 144F x 2 Joints both on T3, 30% of the splicing done so far
Update (18/05/2026 @ 19:17):
Splicing has started, Teams have started splicing, the splicing is at 10%
Update (18/05/2026 @ 18:00):
The team busy splicing on AG the second team on other side almost done prepping the second joint.
Update (18/05/2026 @ 17:57):
Vumatel technicians are preparing the joints for splicing
Update (18/05/2026 @ 16:41):
Prepping is almost completed Splicing will commence shortly
Update (18/05/2026 @ 15:43):
The Vumatel team is preparing 144tubes for splicing. They've got 15 tubes we need to splice
Update (18/05/2026 @ 13:17):
Vumatel technicians are on site localising the fault
Update (18/05/2026 @ 10:24):
Vumatel technicians have found the break 2 × 144f was cut
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