eagle,eye:
I am sorry if this is the wrong place for this. MOD's forgive me.
QUESTION
I really want to know what the deal is with PHCN (and their workers)?
Just this morning around 10:30am, I came out of my flat and saw this PHCN guy on a ladder trying to cut lines in our building. I threatened to take their pictures and one of them attacked me and hit me first while, I elbowed him in the face. Before we kind of seperated with each looking for weapons to finish the fight.
To cut a long story short, my line and others were reconnected after they saw proof that we have all paid.
NB
I thought, there is nothing like PHCN and sharing of Bills and cutting of lines/power. Somebody should enlighten me, because I intend taking this matter up with the police. At least I know the guy that attacked me.

ruffhandu: Eagle eye,
Different coys offer different electric power services; some generate, some distribute etc. The old PHCN staff were disengaged but the new companies have to absord the old staff for smoother transition, I believe most of them may be dropped with time. But for now, they work for the new companies. But they are all on the edge, they know that the slightest mess-up from them will attract severe sanctions from their new employers.

I was even wondering:
The advent of mobile comm coys sent NITEL to the backyard and the coys made access to comm affordable.
How does this privatisation of PCHN forster competition that'll break the monopoly of PHCN?

ruffhandu: Eagle eye,
Different coys offer different electric power services; some generate, some distribute etc. The old PHCN staff were disengaged but the new companies have to absord the old staff for smoother transition, I believe most of them may be dropped with time. But for now, they work for the new companies. But they are all on the edge, they know that the slightest mess-up from them will attract severe sanctions from their new employers.

I was even wondering:
The advent of mobile comm coys sent NITEL to the backyard and the coys made access to comm affordable.
How does this privatisation of PCHN forster competition that'll break the monopoly of PHCN?

superboi:

Lol you people don't really think things through do you?
Power sector and Telecoms and both very different in today's World and unless there is a radical shift in Technology (Like the advent of GSM in telephony). This method of privatization that have been followed means that it is the Power producers that have the bargaining power and not the consumers unlike telecoms sector.

This is because the is more Money chasing the little available power available and the fact as an end consumer you cannot change your power supplier unless you pack to a different town or region. So now it is the power companies that would chose who the would rather give power to unlike telecom where you could easily change sim.