The Internet Service Providers’ Association, an industry body that represents many of South Africa’s ISPs, believes regulatory intervention is needed to force operators to open their networks to resellers. That this hasn’t happened
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Fibre-to-the-home operator Vumatel has officially launched 200Mbit/s fibre options on its network, it said on Wednesday. The products will be available in both symmetrical and asymmetrical versions
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
MTN South Africa said on Monday that it plans to open its fibre-to-the-home network to other Internet service providers from September. The move, which brings MTN in line with other fibre providers such
Vumatel will introduce a new, 200Mbit/s fibre-to-the-home offering on 1 August, according to several Internet service providers. The company itself is not saying anything – a spokesman was unable to comment
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod talks to Vumatel CEO Niel Schoeman about the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market in South Africa. In the discussion, Schoeman chats about how the idea of Vumatel came
South African fibre-to-the-home pioneer Vumatel is receiving constant interest from bigger telecommunications companies wanting to acquire it, but the company is not yet ready to
Fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Vumatel has taken its first tentative steps into the KwaZulu-Natal market, acquiring Durban based fibre company Estate Connexions. Terms of the deal have not been
The number of Telkom digital subscriber line subscribers has declined for the first time ever. Between 1 April 2016 and 30 September 2016, the operator lost 19 714 DSL customers. This went largely unnoticed by the market as Telkom changed
It’s our last show for 2016, and a time to look back at the year that was. In this special edition of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg choose their top smartphones of 2016. Also this week, the biggest local and international