{"id":100510,"date":"2015-09-25T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100510\/local-company-lost-without-phone-lines\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:17:58","slug":"local-company-lost-without-phone-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/25\/local-company-lost-without-phone-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Local company lost without phone lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GCN has received a complaint from a company located in President Street in the Germiston CBD.<\/p>\n

The company has been struggling with the continuous damage to their phone lines by the construction currently taking place in the CBD<\/a>.<\/p>

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It has contacted Telkom, who informed them that the problems will continue because the Ekurhuleni Metro\u2019s contractors continue to damage the cables.<\/p>\n

A staff member explained how the company has started to lose business as people cannot reach the company.<\/p>

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The company is unsure about their future.<\/p>\n

The GCN sent a query to the metro to find out who the company can contact about this on-going problem and what steps can be taken to protect the phone lines and other cabling in the CBD during the on-going works.<\/p>\n

The metro\u2019s spokesman, Themba Gadebe, responded with the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cTelkom have recently lost cables in and around Germiston, as a result of thieves stealing a lot of cables.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir manholes where broken into and a lot of cables were stolen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are constantly coming across a lot of other services and to single out Telkom would be maliciously careless and even so to make that accusation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unfortunate thing is cables are stolen on or near where the contractor is working.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny service which is broken by the contractor is reported and fixed promptly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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