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The uptake of fibre to the home in Johannesburg is proof that the days of 4Mbit/s ADSL connections are numbered. Telkom, which had rolled out fibre to 38 000 households by August last year, has committed to raising that number to 500 000 by December 2016 and to a million homes by

MWeb has cut the price of fibre-to-the-home broadband in areas where last-mile fibre specialist Vumatel provides infrastructure. The Internet service provider said on Tuesday that it is also increasing data cap sizes at the same time as cutting prices. Details about

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

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