Huawei and China Mobile build 3,000km long 1.2Tbps network
Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000-kilometre Internet network linking Beijing to the south, which the country is touting as its latest technological breakthrough.
The two firms teamed up with Tsinghua...
In the news these days, since the days of covid, we have been talking about rolling out fibre networks and connections and how it's so affordable and fast. I find myself asking the question, what is the quality of these networks? I have been struggling with getting my network service provider to...
Liquid completes two new long-distance fibre routes in SA
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) South Africa has announced the successful completion of two new fibre routes – NLD5 and NLD6 – connecting Durban to Cape Town via an inland route.
The company said the completion of this fibre...
Fibre networks explain wholesale price increases in South Africa
At the beginning of 2020, several of South Africa's top fibre network operators warned Internet service providers that they essentially planned to increase wholesale prices.
These included Vumatel, which has overtaken Openserve...
The biggest fibre networks in South Africa
Telkom’s interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2019 showed a big decline in its fixed-broadband subscribers.
While the decline is mostly a result of losing copper-based ADSL and VDSL lines, the company’s fibre growth has slowed.