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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
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- digital subscriber line (dsl) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) lunga siyo openserve telkom
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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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.- Jan
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- frogfoot metrofibre octotel openserve vumatel
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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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...- Jan
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- afrihost fibre-to-the-home (ftth) openserve
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Openserve network problem - 20 February 2023
Openserve network problems Some Openserve customers in the Gauteng region may be experiencing downtime or degraded performance due to a problem on the network. Internet service provider Supersonic informed subscribers about the issue in an SMS message on Monday.- Jan
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- openserve telkom
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Telkom exploring sale of minority stake in Openserve
Telkom wants to sell part of fibre giant Openserve Telkom says “various initiatives are underway” to sell a minority stake in Openserve, its wholesale and network division. This follows the legal separation of Openserve to a stand-alone entity on 1 September 2022.- Jan
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- dark fibre africa (dfa) maziv openserve telkom vodacom vumatel
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Telkom announces plan to raise R1 billion by selling “qualifying device receivables” to financial institutions
Telkom plans raising R1 billion amid dwindling profits Telkom plans to raise R1 billion by selling “qualifying device receivables” to financial institutions. The partially state-owned company announced the plan in a quarterly trading update published on Tuesday.- Jan
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- openserve telkom
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Openserve FTTH line speed upgrades from 1 April 2023
Openserve announces fibre speed upgrades Telkom's fixed-line division Openserve will increase speeds on most of its fibre-to-home (FTTH) packages from 1 April 2023. Openserve said the changes showcased its commitment to providing a high-quality and reliable service to its channel partners and...- Jan
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- fibre network operator (fno) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) openserve telkom
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How is Octotel? Moving to Cape Town
Hey guys, We moving from Durban to Cape Town, we on OpenServe currently and their service has been pretty great. Very little congestion and their response time is quick to faults. Our house in Cape Town has OpenServe or Octotel, Im inclined to go with Octotel because A) The Octotel equipment is...- NoServersInTheCloud
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- fibre octotel openserve
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- Forum: Fibre Networks
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Fibre vs copper prices in South Africa and the doom of DSL
Goodbye ADSL — Fibre vs copper prices in South Africa South Africa's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) packages are generally cheaper than DSL broadband products with similar download speeds, a comparison by MyBroadband has found. The sole provider of DSL infrastructure in South Africa — Telkom's...- Jan
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- afrihost asynchronous digital subscriber line (adsl) axxess digital subscriber line (dsl) fibre-to-the-home (ftth) mweb openserve telkom very-high-bitrate digital subscriber line (vdsl)
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South African fibre networks: Google's massive Equiano cable is good news
Equiano's landing is good news for South Africa's fibre networks Google's Equiano cable landed in Melkbosstrand in Cape Town on 8 August 2022, and the additional undersea capacity promises several benefits to South African fibre network operators (FNOs) and their customers. MyBroadband asked...- Jan
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- afrihost althon beukes bluenova mtn mtn globalconnect openserve suveer ramdhani telkom vodacom
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Openserve's plans for 2023
Openserve's fibre plans for 2023 — and how its prices compare Openserve's fibre plans for 2023 include adding higher-speed packages and developing a scalable fibre network. MyBroadband asked the fibre network operator (FNO) about its plans for 2023 and whether it planned on launching a...- Jan
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- afrihost fibre network operator (fno) frogfoot metrofibre openserve
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What makes Openserve FUP different?
I noticed Home Connect has a separate, more strict FUP for Openserve clients. https://home-connect.co.za/fair-use-policy-fup/ I am curious as to how FNOs bill ISPs and what makes Openserve different. My theory was that ISPs got billed twice. first a fee for each customer's connection. second...- BasBas
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- fiber fiber ftth fibre network operator (fno) fno ftth isp openserve vumatel
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- Forum: Fibre Networks
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One Vox / Frogfoot gigabit subscriber used 101TB in November 2022
The 101TB man — Biggest bandwidth hogs in South Africa Several demanding fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) users consumed over 50 terabytes (TB) of data in November 2022, feedback from three major Internet service providers (ISPs) has shown. However, traffic on major fibre networks appears to have...- Jan
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- afrihost cool ideas fibre-to-the-home (ftth) metrofibre octotel openserve vox vumatel
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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100Mbps FTTH price comparison - December 2022
Fibre showdown — 100Mbps prices compared Wirulink, C-Way, and RSAWeb offer the lowest 100Mbps fibre prices compared to more-prominent Internet service providers (ISPs) like Afrihost, Axxess, and Cool Ideas, a MyBroadband analysis has shown. Wirulink offers the lowest prices for Openserve and...- Jan
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- afrihost axxess c-way cool ideas frogfoot herotel metrofibre octotel openserve rsaweb wirulink
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50Mbps FTTH FNO-ISP price comparison
South African fibre price war — with 50Mbps from R499 per month The entry-level fibre package speed for many South African fibre network operators (FNOs) has shifted from 10Mbps or 20Mbps to 50Mbps. A MyBroadband analysis has revealed that smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) offer the...- Jan
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- afrihost axxess c-way cool ideas frogfoot herotel metrofibre octotel openserve rsaweb vumatel wirulink
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Telkom DSL subscribers at lowest point since 2006
Goodbye DSL Telkom digital subscriber line (DSL) customers are now few and far between, with the network operator's DSL subscriber base having dropped below 120,000, its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2022 have revealed. DSL users in South Africa are now at their lowest...- Jan
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- digital subscriber line (dsl) openserve serame taukobong telkom
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How Telkom let Vumatel (and everyone else) eat its lunch
Fighting fibre with fibre Telkom released its mid-year financial results on Wednesday — and it wasn’t pretty. Revenue was down 0.7% to R21 billion, mobile service revenue was down 0.7% to R8.78 billion, fixed service revenue was down 9.8% to R6.28 billion, and headline earnings per share was...- Jan
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- dirk reyneke fibre-to-the-home (ftth) frogfoot herotel metrofibre octotel openserve serame taukobong telkom vumatel
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Telkom CEO said they won't sell Openserve separately
We will not sell Openserve — Telkom CEO Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong says the company would not consider selling off its network infrastructure subsidiary Openserve. “It is a core asset for us. We are definitely not considering selling a majority of Openserve,” Taukobong said during a Q&A...- Jan
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- openserve serame taukobong telkom
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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Telkom reports revenue decline and big EBITDA hit
Telkom takes a beating Telkom has published interim results for the first half of its 2023 financial year (H1 FY2023), revealing a decline in operating revenue as its mobile and fixed service divisions struggled to perform. Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong said the period from April 2022 to...- Jan
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- business connexion (bcx) openserve serame taukobong telkom telkom mobile
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- Forum: Broadband and IT News
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How to get in contact with Openserve?
I've only had Fibre for 3 days now and out of those 3 days, it's been offline for 1 day now. I sent a call me back on their site, I sent message on Twitter, sent message on fakebook, I sent email, no reply on any of them! Openserve app won't even let me link my B Serial number on the app, says...- KoolKop
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- contact details no connectivity openserve openserve fibre
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- Forum: Fibre Networks