Welcome
This site is an on line resource and interface into the statistics gathered by our SMS data gathering service. The raw data is licensed under the Creative Commons License.This site has NO affiliation with the South African Government or Eskom. We are only trying to examine how the ordinary South African Citizen is affected by the on going outages, also known as load shedding.
If this is your FIRST visit to this site, we suggest you start here...
HOT TIP
You can save some of the keyword combinations as a TEMPLATE on your cell phone. Please refer to your handset documentation on how to set up a template. Some of the templates you can save:|
eskom poweroff
eskom poweron
eskom loss
eskom comment
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Latest Updates
2007-01-27 22:00:00There is now an API available, so you can integrate your own web site with this one. With the API you can add areas with outages, clear outage alerts and get a list of the top 30 current outages. In order to use the API, you need to request registration from our contact page. Please use "API APPLICATION" as your subject.
2007-01-27 17:00:00
We have added a WAP site from where you can log and view current outages. The address: http://www.support-sa.org/wap.html
Please note that in order to log your outage, you still need to at least have used the SMS service once. This is purely to verify your cell nr. It help us track the number of unique visitors that log outages. Thanks for your support!
2007-01-23 20:00:00
The SMS submit processing engine has been refined to allow for small spelling mistakes in the keywords to be corrected. The "poweroff" SMS no longer has a comment feature, but all text -after- the "poweroff" keyword will be treated as the "region" or "area" where the outage is at. This will hopefully improve the service. Thanks for everybody for the helpful suggestions! More changes to follow soon...
2007-01-23 06:30:00
The resources page is now available
2007-01-22 19:00:00
The outage map is now functional.
2007-01-22 14:00:00
The initial site is uploaded. There a some outstanding stuff that still need to be completed, like the outage map and the shout out page. We have also just added Google Analytics tracking to see how popular the site is in relation to the SMS hits.
