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    Post your free speed upgrade Speedtests!

    40Mbps Telkom Fibre now at 50Mbps!
  3. Jan

    Openserve increasing fibre line speeds

    Openserve free fibre speed upgrades announced Many of Openserve's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers are getting free speed upgrades in the next few months. Major Internet service provider (ISP) Afrihost, which resells Openserve FTTH packages, recently notified customers about the line speed...
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    NATted static IP and regularly changing IPv6 DP

    In short, is it actually literally impossible to have a stable IPv6 PD and a non-NAT static IP with Openserve? There's a bit of a preamble for this. I have recently had tremendous trouble with Vumatel in my area, where the service would go down for hours, almost weekly. Frustrated with this, I...
  5. Lashie130

    Vox and Openserve Connection Issue - PLEASE HELP!

    Okay so after 2 days of router reboots, router resets and a call to Vox here I am on the MyBroadband forum trying to find a fix or a answer to my issue, router is not from Vox using a Linksys WRT ACM3200. Issue started on Tuesday evening whereby playing Rocket League on my Playstation my...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Government partnering with Telkom to improve South Africa's broadband coverage

    Government partnering with Telkom to improve South Africa's broadband coverage Telkom SA SOC Ltd. and the South African government are in advanced talks to partner in rolling out broadband products even as buyers flock to bid for the telecommunication company’s assets. The partnership will...
  7. Jan

    How Telkom squandered its fixed-line dominance

    How Telkom snatched defeat from the jaws of victory Telkom has squandered its competitive advantage in the fibre-to-the-home market after several strategic blunders which allowed Vumatel to become the premier provider of fibre-to-the-home in South Africa. To understand the significance of...
  8. Jan

    DSL and FTTH prices in South Africa compared - June 2023

    ADSL vs fibre prices in South Africa — the winner is clear South Africans can save a fair amount each month if they can opt for a home fibre package instead of DSL, a MyBroadband analysis has revealed. Although comparing fibre to DSL on a like-for-like basis can be challenging, it is possible...
    • Jan
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    • afrihost digital subscriber line (dsl) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) openserve telkom
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  9. Jan

    Telkom has around 74,500 DSL customers left

    Telkom fixed-line wipeout Despite rapidly growing its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in South Africa in the past year, Telkom's Openserve division lost over 200,000 fixed-line customers. According to the telecoms company's Abridged Annual Results for 2023, fixed-access lines declined from...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • digital subscriber line (dsl) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) openserve serame taukobong telkom
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
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    Fibre in Hillcrest, KZN - Down during loadshedding

    Calls have been logged with Openserve and we are getting notifications from ISP's, but no one is giving answers on the issue. Since Friday last week (26-05-2023), when loadshedding kicks in, the Fibre network in Hillcrest, KZN and surrounds goes down. The battery backup doesn't seem to be...
  11. Jan

    Maziv vs Openserve in homes passed, homes connected, and capex

    South Africa's fibre war Vumatel has reported a significant increase in the number of homes connected to its fibre network, once again overtaking Telkom-owned Openserve. Telkom reported higher connection numbers in a voluntary fourth-quarter trading update in February, briefly overtaking...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • community investment ventures holdings (civh) dark fibre africa (dfa) maziv openserve remgro telkom vumatel
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  12. 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
  13. Jan

    Telkom taps Bank of America for sale of stake in fiber unit Openserve

    Telkom kicks off sale of Openserve Telkom SA SOC has kicked off the sale of a stake in its fiber business, as it seeks to unlock value for shareholders and boost profit. The South African telecommunications group is working with Bank of America Corp. to gauge interest in the Openserve business...
  14. BamboozledAttorney

    200/200 Best Fibre Deals

    Okay, well, not really. Certain FNOs tend to have weird packages, and some ISPs to my knowledge haven't updated their website yet to reflect those new speeds. For example, Openserve began a 300/150 package, but a lot of ISPs still have the 250/125 package on their website. Unless they did a free...
  15. Jan

    Seacom launches on Equiano

    Seacom buys bandwidth on Google's massive undersea cable Seacom has launched services on the Google-owned Equiano undersea cable, promising private lines with latencies of 110 milliseconds between South Africa and Europe. The company says this is the fastest direct route between the continents.
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • alphabet equiano google infinera liquid intelligent technologies openserve prenesh padayachee seacom west indian ocean cable company (wiocc)
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  16. Jan

    Biggest fibre networks operators in South Africa - March 2023

    South Africa's biggest fibre networks South Africa has around 1.5 million households with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity, thanks to a plethora of fibre network operators (FNOs) rolling out infrastructure across the country. Six of these FNOs have over 100,000 customers connected to...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • frogfoot herotel metrofibre networx octotel openserve vumatel
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. Jan

    Friendly warning from ISPA to FNOs - end forced fibre speed upgrades

    Stop forced fibre speed upgrades The Internet Service Providers’ Association of SA (ISPA) has cautioned fibre network operators (FNOs) against forcing fibre upgrades on consumers. “While upgrades advertising ‘more for the same price’, for example, are indeed good news for most consumers, FNOs...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • fibre network operator (fno) frogfoot internet service providers’ association (ispa) metrofibre metrofibre networx octotel openserve
    • Replies: 80
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  18. Jan

    500Mbps and 1Gbps fibre networks price comparison after major shake-up

    Fibre shake-up in South Africa — Cheapest 500Mbps and 1Gbps connections Numerous fibre network operators (FNOs) offer South Africans fast and affordable 500Mbps or 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections. These top-end speeds let users download and upload large files in the shortest time...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • fibre network operator (fno) frogfoot metrofibre networx octotel openserve vumatel
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  19. Jan

    Telkom announces mobile, DSL, FTTH, and voice price increases

    Telkom hikes prices Telkom has announced it will hike its mobile, DSL, and voice product prices from 1 April 2023 and increase fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) prices on 1 May 2023. The telecoms company said South Africa's high inflation rate meant that price increases were "necessary and unavoidable"...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • digital subscriber line (dsl) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) lunga siyo openserve telkom
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  20. Jan

    Fibre network operator price comparison - February 2023

    Openserve destroyed in South Africa's 2023 fibre price war Recent changes in South African fibre network operator (FNO) speeds and pricing have made Openserve the most expensive home fibre provider for nearly all line speed categories. This represents a radical shift from the past two years.
  21. Jan

    Afrihost announces Openserve price increase with speed upgrades

    Afrihost announces Openserve fibre price hikes Afrihost has informed subscribers on Openserve's fibre infrastructure of speed and price increases to their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) packages, with prices rising by R50 a month across the board. Several MyBroadband readers started receiving email...
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