News24 understands that the final deadline for moving meters onto the new standard is in May next year. The STS-prepaid update is necessary owing to a date rollover issue that is set to impact the ...

The utility has known about the issue for more than 10 years, according to Don Taylor, the inventor of the first prepaid electricity meter, who is heading up the rollover project for the Standard ...

The prepaid meters are not being changed ... No, there are no contractors or installers in this rollover. The recoding is done by customers themselves. No Eskom person will be visiting you ...

TID rollover project coordinator Riccardo Pucci ... If the customers with the outstanding 2.5 million prepaid meters have all been consuming electricity illegally either through bypassing or ...

The company said this was in compliance with the Token Identifier rollover, an exercise that affects all Standard Transfer Specification-compliant prepaid meters across the globe. “Mainpower is ...

Prepaid meters not reconditioned before November 24 will not load tokens, leading to an electricity black-out. MMC for Utilities Themba Fosi said the TID rollover project is a crucial initiative ...

Electricity distributors were told to update their prepaid meters over ten years ago, but many only started the KRN rollover process in the past few years. Eskom, which has nearly 6.9 million of ...

Engr. Aliyu Tahir further stated that the prepaid meter end-users will be involved in the final piece of the puzzle – the TID rollover key change process. This process he said involves a ...

so on 24th November a new system rollover will occur. What this means for customers is that if their prepaid meter isn’t updated, once their existing credit is used up, they will no longer be ...

Aliyu Tukur Tahir, explained in a statement yesterday that the issue of Standard Transfer Specification, STS, prepaid meters upgrading by means of Token Identifier, TID rollover would not lead to ...

Mynhardt Ferreira, mayor Cilliers Brink and Themba Fosi during the launch of the electricity prepaid meters Token Identification (TID) system roll-over in Centurion. Photo: Itumeleng Mokoena Brink ...