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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africa's biggest FTTH networks share achievements and challenges in 2023

    South Africa's biggest FTTH networks share achievements and challenges in 2023 South Africa's biggest fibre network operators (FNOs) continued to expand their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks substantially in 2023. The number of people using FTTH has surged past those that had a Telkom DSL...
    • Hanno Labuschagne
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    • evotel fibre network operator (fno) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) frogfoot herotel home fibre metrofibre octotel openserve vodacom vumatel zoom fibre
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    These are the fibre Davids taking on industry Goliaths

    These are the fibre Davids taking on industry Goliaths South Africa’s major fibre network players are companies like Vumatel, Openserve, Frogfoot, and Metrofibre. However, several smaller fibre network operators (FNOs), including Zoom Fibre, Octotel, Evotel, Mitsol, and TT Connect, could...
  4. Jan

    Load-shedding makes fixing fibre breaks harder, explains FNO

    Why fibre breaks can take longer to fix during load-shedding Fibre operators' support teams can be heavily impacted by load-shedding, resulting in fibre break fixes taking longer than expected. This is according to Evotel general manager Bradley Bekker, who added that while fibre network...
  5. Jan

    Vumatel and Openserve charge ISPs for downgrades

    These fibre networks punish ISPs when customers downgrade to cheaper packages At least two of South Africa's major fibre network operators (FNOs) penalise Internet service providers (ISPs) when their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers downgrade to slower packages. The issue of fibre downgrade...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • evotel fibre network operator (fno) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) frogfoot herotel internet service providers’ association (ispa) metrofibre networx octotel openserve telkom vumatel
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. BamboozledAttorney

    Best 200/200 deals

    It has been a while since I have done one of these. I did a thorough analysis on selected ISPs and which FNOs they operate on, just to see what the price would be for a 200/200 package. The reason why I decided to do this is that surprisingly, Webafrica on a Vumatel FNO got cheaper... The...
  7. Jan

    South African fibre operator comparison - homes passed and connected

    Vumatel and Openserve rule South Africa's fibre roost Vumatel and Openserve are South Africa's largest fibre-to-the-home players, but smaller fibre network operators' (FNOs) infrastructure rollouts are increasing their footprints in the country. MyBroadband asked South African FNOs about their...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • evotel frogfoot herotel metrofibre openserve vodacom vumatel zoom fibre
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  8. Jan

    Openserve and Vumatel neck-and-neck for in race for South Africa's top fibre brand

    Openserve versus Vumatel — a close race for the top fibre brand Research by Analytico reveals that Openserve is the fibre network operator (FNO) with the strongest brand, followed closely by Vumatel. Frogfoot and MetroFibre also performed well in brand awareness, considering that they are much...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • analytico evotel frogfoot herotel metrofibre networx octotel openserve vumatel
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  9. Jan

    Openserve home fibre preferred over Vumatel, Vodacom, and Frogfoot - report

    New report shows Openserve preferred over Vumatel, Vodacom, and Frogfoot Analytico's 2022 South African Broadband and ISP Brand Report revealed that Openserve is the most popular fibre operator, followed by Vumatel, Vodacom, Frogfoot, and Metrofibre. The report is based on survey responses...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • evotel fibre network operator (fno) frogfoot metrofibre octotel openserve telkom ttconnect vodacom vumatel
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. N

    Evotel fibre with different ISP

    I moved into a complex that has been set up for Evotel Fibre. I wonder whether I am locked into that ISP or if I am free to choice another ISP like Telkom or CFibre from Cell C? I would imagine the infrastructure is the same? I saw on the Evotel website that the 5Mbps unshaped uncapped line...
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