These are the companies that control South Africa's Internet
Vumatel has grown to become a dominant player in fibre-to-the-home, while Telkom's Openserve division continues to dominate when it comes to national long-distance fibre in South Africa.
Vodacom and MTN remain the most dominant...
So, you want to build a broadband network
It takes two years just to gather the licenses needed to roll out a single fibre link according to Dimension Data boss
More national bandwidth required in South Africa
Undersea cable systems in South Africa can provide terabits of bandwidth, and the bottleneck is now national backhaul capacity
First FibreCo services to be operational next year
Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt said that the new FibreCo fibre network will revolutionize bandwidth prices in South Africa
FibreCo details
FibreCo Telecommunications announced that they will take on Telkom, Broadband Infraco and Neotel/MTN/Vodacom with a new fibre network. Here are the details.
Established in 2009 as an equal partnership between CellC, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners, FibreCo aims to deploy a state-of-the-art fully managed long-haul fibre optic terrestrial network. FibreCo will develop infrastructure where necessary and leverage already available fibre...
FibreCo versus Telkom, Broadband Infraco and Neotel
FibreCo Telecommunications set to do battle with Telkom, Broadband Infraco, Neotel, MTN and Vodacom with a new national fibre network