Cellphone company MTN said on Monday afternoon that its customers were being affected by “intermittent connection issues”.

The downtime was affecting approximately one million voice‚ SMS and data customers throughout the country‚ according to the BusinessTech.co.za website.

Without providing any reasons‚ MTN South Africa said on its Twitter account: “We are currently experiencing intermittent connection issues affecting some customers. Our engineers are working on resolving this asap”.

 The MTN SA Service account stated: “Apologies for the lapse in service some of our towers are being upgraded our technical guys are working on restoring” (sic).

Customers of MTN said on social media they had been experiencing problems with their service since Sunday.

Some of the comments posted to Twitter:

Nwabisa Ngesi @Nwabs–N posted on twitter: “@MTNza This has been happening since yesterday afternoon. It’s really an inconvenience.”

Katlego @katleelaka @tetelo–K @MTNza They’ve been saying this since last night hle ngwana! I slept without network.

Miss @tetelo–K @katleelaka @MTNza ba sleg these ones. Me and my sis were complaining about them too last night.

 Katlego @katleelaka @tetelo–K @MTNza Ehhh!! #PayBackTheData

Bradley Zass™ @BiGiDuets @MTNza I was wondering why my data connection kept on zonking out....Ai!

 B.I.A.N.C.A. @B–Hamann @MTNza intermittent? I have had network since yesterday afternoon... come on guys!

Revasha @helzangl @MTNza Any idea when this is going to be back up? My phone has been acting up all weekend and I thought it was just me being affected.

Adrienne Moolman @MoolmanAdrienne @MTNza The data problem might be from just yesterday but dropped calls and calls just not going through much longer then yesterday