Telkom's LTE network left many subscribers without calls, texts or mobile data across South Africa on 27 September 2025, with reports arriving from Johannesburg through to smaller towns such as Seshego. downdetector
Users posted complaints on social platforms saying their phones showed no service or went straight to voicemail, and outage trackers recorded a sharp rise in incident reports during the midday period. One user wrote that they feared their number had been hacked after calls failed to connect, a sentiment echoed in several live reports. Outage Report
Telkom acknowledged the disruption on its social channels and said engineers were attending to the fault, while advising affected customers to reboot devices and check for service updates. X formerly Twitter
