Major Afrihost fibre outage
Internet service provider (ISP) Afrihost is experiencing a "high-impact" national fibre outage in South Africa.
Reports of problems at the ISP started spiking on the online service outage reporting website Downdetector at around 05:00 on Wednesday, 25 March 2026.
South African fibre Internet users consuming hundreds of terabytes per year
One of South Africa's largest Internet service providers (ISPs) saw multiple customers consume hundreds of terabytes of data during the year.
South Africa's Internet traffic has surged in recent years. In November...
South African Internet vs popular household goods prices over the last decade
While the prices of most consumer goods and services in South Africa have increased substantially over the last decade, Internet connectivity is much cheaper.
The primary driving forces in this reduction were...
Mweb and Openserve fibre outage in Gauteng
Users of South Africa's second-largest fibre network operator (FNO) Openserve and major Internet service provider (ISP) Mweb are experiencing Internet connectivity issues in Gauteng.
Online outage tracking website Downdetector showed a substantial...
Researchers in Japan have clocked a new speed record for data transmission – a blistering 1.02 petabits per second (Pb/s).
Better yet, the breakthrough was achieved using optical fiber cables that should be compatible with existing infrastructure.
For reference, 1 petabit is equivalent to a...
To all the people living in Ridgeway we almost considered by vumatel for fibre, I need your help to bring this into reality. please help the area out and best regards
Here's an image of how many submits we have left thanks so much...
https://imgur.com/a/l95xN
Here's link to vumatel site...