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Jo’burg fibre to be lit by year-end

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BWired, the company created by Ericsson and the City of Johannesburg to build a city-wide fibre network, says it is on course for an early 2012 switch-on. The network will connect 500 buildings owned by the city, with remaining capacity made available

New telecoms player to invest billions in fibre

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SA is getting a new, corporate-focused telecommunications operator and Internet service provider. The company, OnedotCom, which is part of the same group that is supporting the construction of a R1,2bn fibre-optic communications

Jo’burg makes progress on R1,2bn fibre network

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BWired, a joint venture between the City of Johannesburg and Ericsson, has completed a 300km core, 1,2Tbit/s fibre-optic broadband network at a cost of R250m. The network stretches from the south of Soweto to Midrand

Jo’burg R1bn broadband backbone here soon

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The fibre backbone of the City of Johannesburg’s R1bn broadband infastructure project, being built in conjunction with Ericsson SA, should be completed within the next three months

SA cities in big fibre roll-out push

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SA’s three biggest cities are all pushing ahead with ambitious fibre-optic network projects, promising businesses and even residential customers cheaper and faster broadband. The municipalities of Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town are all pushing ahead with plans to build thousands of kilometres of fibre infrastructure as they try to drive down communication costs in their cities.