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The City of Cape Town has approved the installation of fibre-optic cables in the municipality’s sewerage and storm water pipes. The city said in a statement that fibre specialist Link Africa has been granted permission to proceed with the installation of fibre

MTN is starting its first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments in the Western Cape, it said on Friday. It has begun trenching in Fresnaye and Bakoven, where it intends connecting a thousand homes by year-end. It’s the first time that MTN has expanded its FTTH network

Telkom will open its telecommunications exchanges to Internet service providers using an open-access model in an effort to stimulate demand for fixed-line broadband in South Africa. “To further stimulate access to broadband, we will make making around

In what could prove be a significant development, MTN has now said it supports the concept of open-access networks for the deployment of fibre-to-the-home infrastructure in South Africa. It said it believes that an open-access business model

Victory Park, Linden, Bryanston South and Blairgowrie will be the latest suburbs in Johannesburg to get fibre-to-the-home broadband, start-up fibre telecommunications operator Vumatel said on

At Telkom’s recent annual results presentation, CEO Sipho Maseko revealed an astonishing fact. He said there are now at least 25 companies building fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure in South Africa

Link Africa, the fibre communications company previously known as i3 Africa, has scaled back its business, closing its Johannesburg office and ending its plans, at least for now, to build fibre-to-the-home infrastructure in South Africa’s big cities. TechCentral has learnt that 15 managers