Cost of maintaining copper is far higher than fibre, so dont expect any replacement projects here. Openserve will only roll out fibre to complexes where the body corporates approve installation of the fibre ONT to each unit. Sadly most body corporates are approving smaller 3rd party network...
The subscriber has to be within a 150 meter loop from the DSLAM in order to achieve the 900Mbps speeds. This is not a viable solution since only a handful of subscribers are within this copper loop
Telkom has reorganized it business and operates as an ISP in the retail space. Wholly owned subsidiary Openserve owns and maintains the copper and fibre network. Openserve will not keep replacing copper in areas of high theft and poor quality cable. The model is to migrate ADSL customers to a...