{"id":597128,"date":"2023-08-10T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597128"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:14:35","slug":"power-cuts-but-no-alert-by-sms-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-cuts-but-no-alert-by-sms-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts, but no alert by SMS: Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: T Nagar has smart meters that make the job easier for Tangedco workers with respect to meter reading, disconnection and reconnection. But several consumers have rued that they are deprived of a basic facility to be alerted about power cuts through SMS.<\/p>\n<p>The SMS-for-outages is not a new initiative, but a well-established system that has taken a backseat. \u201cTangedco used to send out SMS to consumers even when sudden power cuts took place. Why have such consumer-friendly measures been given up by Tangedco,\u201d asked T Jayaraman of T Nagar residents welfare Association. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: T Nagar has smart meters that make the job easier for Tangedco workers with respect to meter reading, disconnection and reconnection. But several consumers have rued that they are deprived of a basic facility to be alerted about power cuts through SMS. The SMS-for-outages is not a new initiative, but a well-established system that has taken a backseat. \u201cTangedco used to send out SMS to consumers even when sudden power cuts took place. Why have such consumer-friendly measures been given up by Tangedco,\u201d asked T Jayaraman of T Nagar residents welfare Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}