Emerging markets investment firm Actis has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Cape Town-based fibre broadband network operator Octotel.
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In its policy paper published this week, national treasury devoted considerable space to the telecommunications sector. Though many of the proposals make sense, an anachronism stuck out. By Duncan McLeod.
Cape Town-focused fibre-to-the-home infrastructure operator Octotel said it is now the third-largest fibre provider in the country, behind Openserve and Vumatel, after reaching 100 000 homes passed.
The Competition Tribunal has approved the acquisition by Remgro’s Community Investment Ventures Holdings of Vumatel, but has attached long-term conditions to the sale.
Fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Octotel said on Thursday that it is going to expand its infrastructure roll-out to reach more than 100 000 homes passed within a year. The company, which offers open-access fibre, has so
In November, I argued that Telkom’s broadband digital subscriber line service had peaked (that was at the half-year mark). Since then, growth has slowed even further and the telecommunications giant is on a knife-edge of
Cape Town-based open-access fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Octotel has announced plans to expand to the upmarket Atlantic seaboard suburbs of Mouille Point and Bantry Bay in the next two months. The company said on
Cape Town has a new fibre-to-the-home provider. Octotel, founded by entrepreneurs Joe Botha and Michael Pollock, plans to provide broadband access at speeds of up to 1Gbit/s, starting in