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  1. Luis

    Telkom provides a good growth opportunity for investors — Analyst

    Telkom provides a good growth opportunity for investors — Analyst Legacy Family Wealth director Jordan Toy believes Telkom offers a good growth opportunity for investors, particularly due to its wholesale and infrastructure division, Openserve. In its latest annual report, Telkom revealed that...
    • Luis
    • Thread
    • investing investors jordan toy legacy family wealth openserve telkom
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  3. M

    New openserve packages

    Hi, I would like to find out does openserve have an plan to provide speeds higher then 500mbps? Currently octotel has made the 2.5gbs and 5gbs packages available for FTTH through selected ISPs. I know PPPoE has some overhead and thus needs more cpu processing power but I would like to see a...
  4. Alivitas

    Advice Needed: ISP accepted 31 March cancellation but holding Openserve line until end of April

    Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get some advice from the ISP reps or networking guys here regarding Openserve migrations. I am currently migrating away from my current ISP on an Openserve FTTH line. After a dispute over a sudden price increase, their Finance department formally agreed in writing to...
  5. D

    OpenServe 52 Hour Timeouts

    Recently saw a query with Axxess regarding their PPPoE sessions timing out every 52 hours. The behaviour is that the PPPoE session/connection disconnects every 52 hours and then immediately reconnects. Its likely barely noticeable to a lot of users, though clearly visible in routers WAN logs...
    • Dean
    • Thread
    • connectivity fibre openserve pppoe timeout
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Fibre Networks
  6. C

    Openserve + GHOSTFIBRE

    Ahoy ye Broadbanders. I am moving to a new location soon, currently with Afrihost and Openserve, no issues really. Saw this https://www.ghostfibre.com/about/ - AFAIK it's a sub project of WebSquad? Had Websquad during the Covid era, no issues, just Twitch CDN traffic being redirected via...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Openserve and Vumatel fibre price increases 2026

    Openserve and Vumatel are changing their home fibre prices from April 2026. Please post any communication you may have received from your ISP regarding price changes on your product due to these adjustments.
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Mweb and Openserve fibre outage in Gauteng

    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...
  9. P

    Other Axxess clients unable to reach public static IP

    I have been a customer with axxess for more than a couple years now. Since their realm migration in February this year I have had to purchase a static IP to continue hosting game servers for my close friends. Recently I have come to the realization that two Axxess clients (my friends) are unable...
  10. MelowMoth

    Vodacom/OpenServe Fibre FUP?

    Does anyone have a copy of the current Fair Usage Policy limits for Vodacom/OpenServe uncapped fibre lines? Searching online only yields either out of date information or a description of the terms but no mention of the limit. Vodacom used to display it on a persons web profile but it has been...
  11. Shadows_Angel

    Openserve Fibre Test Line

    Just got an Openserve Fibre test line installed today , Currently have Vodacom Fibre line as well , Openserve line uses that aerial fibre- Fibre runs from pole , while the Vodacom fibre is trenched Is latency generally this high on Openserve ( obviousy differs per person ) as it would be a...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Openserve price hikes from 1 April

    Openserve price hikes from 1 April South Africa's second-biggest fibre network operator (FNO) Openserve will increase the wholesale prices of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) products from 1 April 2025. The FNO typically adjusts its FTTH pricing on this date every year, aligning with the start of...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Openserve CEO and Telkom veteran Althon Beukes steps down

    Openserve CEO and Telkom veteran Althon Beukes steps down Telkom veteran Althon Beukes has stepped down as CEO of the company's wholesale fixed-line division Openserve. Beukes has worked at the telecoms company for roughly three decades and has been at the helm of Openserve for four and a half...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Big RSAWeb FTTH outage

    Big RSAWeb FTTH outage Internet service provider (ISP) RSAWeb is suffering from a widespread fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) outage. Hundreds of RSAWeb users reported problems with accessing the Internet on the outage tracking website Downdetector on Saturday, 11 May 2024.
  15. I

    Anyone have contacts in Openserve - need 7 x 500mbps lines

    So we are in desperate need of fibre infrastructure on a large farming + residential + industrial property that is a little bit outside the JHB suburb of Lenasia. Openserve is the dominant FNO in the suburb and works superbly. However, at this property, there is no last mile FTTx infrastructure...
    • InTheCube
    • Thread
    • fibre ftth fttx infrastructure lenasia new openserve
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Fibre Networks
  16. squirrel

    Charged R999 to cancel line that was never installed

    Hello, I have recently moved to a new location and require fibre internet. Despite there being an existing Octotel line, I opted for OpenServe, not thinking it would be a major thing. I placed an order with Afrihost for an OpenServe line on the 15/02 and shortly received a notification to...
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    Openserve fibre price hikes from April 2024

    Hi everyone We've received word of fibre price hikes on Openserve's network from 1 April 2024. Would be great if you could confirm receiving communication from your ISP about these adjustments. @AfriNatic @Afrigirl @AfriGuy
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Prepaid fibre options in South Africa

    Prepaid fibre options in South Africa South Africans looking for highly flexible but fast and reliable broadband could look into a prepaid fibre subscription with several of the country's biggest fibre network operators (FNOs). While conventional monthly fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) packages have...
  19. KeatonRaman24

    Damaged Fibre Cable, Cost to Re-install

    Hi all, Afrihost Fibre User here (OpenServe). Two days ago my fibre ONT Box LOS (Loss of Signal) red light came on. I called Afrihost they indicated that an OpenServe Tech would pop by the next day to repair the fault. OpenServe Findings: Cannot pick up a signal between my ONT Box and Main...
  20. 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
    • Thread
    • 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
  21. TristiaanMTS

    Mind The Speed Support

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