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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...

Internet access surprise in South Africa Fewer South Africans had fixed-line Internet connections at home in 2020 than in 2019, but more accessed the Internet via a mobile device. That is according to Statistics South Africa's latest General Household Survey for 2020, which found around 1.5...

Cheapest home fibre deals in South Africa South Africans can get an uncapped fibre package for as little as R297 per month, thanks to price cuts from fibre network operators and Internet service providers throughout 2021. Several fibre packages have download speeds ranging from 10Mbps to...

Slow death of Telkom ADSL Telkom has released its financial results for the first half of its financial year, which showed its fixed broadband subscribers have declined by 11.8% since last year. From 1 April to 30 September 2021, fixed broadband subscribers on Openserve's copper and fibre...

Openserve fibre connections surge after price cuts Telkom has published its interim results for the six months ended September 2021, revealing a big increase in fibre-to-the-home connections on its Openserve network. Telkom said that the number of homes connected with Openserve fibre increased...

Telkom launches uncapped prepaid fibre — starting at R99 for 3 days Telkom has launched uncapped prepaid fibre offerings starting from R99 for three days' worth of access.

So I'm currently on an Openserve 40Mbit fibre line. In the past I used to have a backup 100GB Afrihost data account for the rare occurrence that Openserve shat the bed. Lately I'm been having issues with Openserve. At least once a week their DNS servers (I'm assuming) go to absolute ****, and...

Hi Guys/Gals This is my first post on mybroadband so please forgive any errors. I currently have a fibre connection with Afrihost running of Openserve. During my install I received one ONT box and the Huawei WS5200 router which included a UPS for loadshedding backups. This works fine. My...

ADSL disconnection could happen from 1 October Openserve has informed Internet service providers (ISPs) of the potential termination of Resell DSL and Openserve Copper Connect (OCC) services within its existing and pre-order fibre footprints. As part of the notice, Openserve said it reserves...

Do other network lay fibre down where there is already a fibre like Vumatel because Openserve and other isp have better prices than Vumatel Vodacom?

High-end fibre price war in South Africa Openserve has launched a new 500Mbps Openserve Fibre Connect service at an affordable rate which is set to shake up the fibre market in South Africa. Many fibre network operators have been offering 500Mbps and 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home services, but...

Telkom fibre overtakes ADSL Telkom has reached an inflection point where the number of homes connected with fibre surpassed the number of homes connected with copper. Tekom revealed this information in its trading update for the quarter ended 30 June 2021.

Big Telkom Mobile data growth Telkom has issued its quarterly trading update for the April-June 2021 period, showing substantial growth in mobile customers and mobile data revenue. “Telkom published a solid set of results for the first quarter of the year in a challenging trading and economic...

My setup: I have 25mbps download / upload with Home Connect on Openserve fibre. I have a Hauwei B525 as the first modem/router and use Google Wifi routers for my mesh wifi. The problem with Google Wifi is that it does not have ability to configure a VPN which is required when using Home Connect...

The L2TP connection won’t reconnect after I reboot my router. Does anyone know why this happens/why I can't reconnect/what I can do to avoid this from happening in future?

Fibre price war — Cheapest network operators in South Africa A fibre-to-the-home price analysis revealed that Openserve and Frogfoot are the most affordable fibre network operators, while Metrofibre is the most expensive. This analysis followed price cuts by two of South Africa’s largest fibre...

Cheapest fibre-to-the-home deals in South Africa South Africans can now get uncapped fibre packages starting from as little as R299 per month thanks to substantial price cuts in the past year. Openserve, Frogfoot, Vumatel, MetroFibre, Herotel, and Octotel were among the fibre network operator...

I have bit the bullet and pre ordered openserve fibre and wanted to know what ont they install and what is the power rating. I have a backup battery for my adsl router and want to repurpose it for the fibre install. Also i am buying my own router so i need to decide which one is going to be more...

Dear All, It is my understanding one would rather order fibre using DFA as back end if this is available at an address. The address in question has access to: a. Openserve b. TTconnect c. Dark Fibre d. Vuma, maybe. Questions, please could you assist? 1. Is my understanding correct...

Fibre price war — Vumatel and Octotel join the fight Fibre network operators and Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa have slashed the price of fibre-to-the-home products in recent months. Openserve started the price war in March when it upgraded speeds and cut prices on its fibre...