Vumatel, the telecommunications start-up challenging Telkom’s dominance of fixed-line broadband in some of Johannesburg’s upmarket suburbs, has announced it is expanding its network to five new areas
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Any Internet service provider that is worried that Telkom’s newly spun-off wholesale and network services arm, Openserve, will provide unfair advantages to the telecommunications operator’s retail arm is welcome, at any time, to come and study the company’s books
Independent fibre broadband companies’ approach of targeting homeowners’ associations to install their networks took Telkom by surprise, says an official. Fibre broadband providers are moving into suburbs such as Johannesburg to lay high-speed Internet networks that offer faster connectivity than
On the same day that Telkom announced it is spinning off its wholesale and networks division as a new company called Openserve, one of the company’s fast-growing rivals, fibre-to-the-home provider
Despite scepticism in some quarters that Telkom’s plan to deploy fibre broadband past a million homes in South Africa by March 2018 – just two-and-a-half years from now – is too ambitious, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has said he is confident the company will not only meet
Within the next three years, Telkom will have deployed fibre-optic broadband infrastructure past a million homes, CEO Sipho Maseko said…
Alan Knott-Craig is nothing if not ambitious. The man behind the Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project in Pretoria and the former boss of both Mxit and iBurst wants to build what he calls “the Capitec of of telecoms
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
Fibre broadband company Vumatel is ramping up its network as it aims to bring high-speed Internet to thousands more homes. On Monday, it announced that it plans to connect 100 000 homes by 2016 after it started its operations just a year ago in the Johannesburg suburb of
Broadband start-up Vumatel has announced plans to build fibre-optic infrastructure in six more Johannesburg suburbs. The company said on Monday that residents in Hurlingham, Glenadrienne, Hyde Park, Northcliff, Sharonlea and Olivedale have decided to ask Vumatel to wire up their