ISPs rate the networks they buy from, and the up-and-comers are increasingly impressing them.
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Octotel has displaced MetroFibre as South Africa’s highest-rated large fibre network operator among ISPs.
Internet service providers have voiced a growing lack of confidence in upstream fibre network operators, a new survey has found.
Frogfoot Networks, the open-access fibre provider, has acquired the fibre-to-the-home assets of Link Africa Western Cape for an undisclosed sum.
MetroFibre, the fibre telecommunications company that recently concluded a R2.5-billion debt funding round, is buying Link Africa’s fibre-to-the-home network in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Vumatel said on Friday it will boost line speeds for customers for free until the end of May to help cope with the high demand for work-from-home solutions amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Link Africa said on Wednesday that is has acquired additional nationwide fibre-optic network infrastructure from a “leading Internet service provider”. TechCentral has determined the seller is Internet Solutions.
MultiChoice Group and Dimension Data decided to liquidate Vast Networks, South Africa’s largest public Wi-Fi hotspot provider, after several attempts to sell the business fell through.
Naspers and Dimension Data are in talks to sell their joint venture in the country to fibre-optic infrastructure company Link Africa, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Vumatel, one of the earliest and now largest players in the South African fibre-to-the-home broadband market, has agreed to buy a big portion of Link Africa’s home fibre infrastructure. In a letter to customers