Alberton Fibre

[georgelza]

think those are the roles of fiber they left/stored on my side walk the other day.

at the moment looking more like bulk point to point connections and not last mile to user.

G

Update - I see they busy doing the fibre in Vermooten street and Mcbride street. Mcbride side is Huawei contracted by Telkom and in Vermooten street "independent" ISP

 

[LazyLion]

Update - I see they busy doing the fibre in Vermooten street and Mcbride street. Mcbride side is Huawei contracted by Telkom and in Vermooten street "independent" ISP

But it's still probably "commercial fibre" meaning that if you and I want access to it, we have to pay commercial rates.

 

[myNeo]

Update - I see they busy doing the fibre in Vermooten street and Mcbride street. Mcbride side is Huawei contracted by Telkom and in Vermooten street "independent" ISP

I can confirm its commercial.

Also Huawei is doing the installs for Telkol to do two things
1. Add another LTE tower in albertom
2. The albertom highschool and race view towers are completely saturated they need to add more bandwidth to those.

Telkom own the tower, Huawei own and maintain all the CELL infrastructure. That's the agreements they have.

I have been working with some other providers for my area. The commonality is NOT infrastructure intact Alberton has excellent coverage of Fiber the Macro, New Market Mall, VW there race view all have a massive node that runs there and Dark Fiber Africa has brilliant coverage.

The issue comes in with the smaller providers (the on sellers) that do the residential fiber have to bulk buy bandwidth from these guys at frankly horrific pricing. Whilst there are a few of us that want fiber their business models in have seen three providers ,require at least 40 -50% interest with a conversation rate of that to 35-40% in production in three years.

I have been lobbying in my area complex to complex to complex and whilst everyone says yes getting INTEREST on a form is close to impossible. Now imagine trying to get commitment.

A lot of the time I get "I am happy with my 2mb" or " nothing wrong with my 3G"

So whilst I as fustrated and irritated, I have done the home work, worked with providers and at the end of the day its just not commercially viable for them and I can totally respect that.

Btw how I know Telkom / Huwauauauaiaiai I had their chief LTE specialist at my place as I use to use LTE and get 100mpbs easy over the last three months its 10mbps at best. They reprinted towers, checked signal cones increased the attenuation only to find out since the free me crap they introduced they grew in Alberton alone 500% the tower capacity hasn't.

** excuse the spelling typing on my Crapple and didn't have time to check

 

[georgelza]

thanks thanks.

There we're still 12-18 months away from getting any non complex residential fibre in Brackenhurst/alberton.

At the moment if I can get my line speed (20Mbps VDSL) then I'm happy with what I'm paying and getting, not that i won't mind more, but for now I can justify paying more.

Nice to know the local nodes have the bandwidth, wink wink CW, start rolling out last mile, Fiber.

G

I can confirm its commercial.

Also Huawei is doing the installs for Telkol to do two things
1. Add another LTE tower in albertom
2. The albertom highschool and race view towers are completely saturated they need to add more bandwidth to those.

Telkom own the tower, Huawei own and maintain all the CELL infrastructure. That's the agreements they have.

I have been working with some other providers for my area. The commonality is NOT infrastructure intact Alberton has excellent coverage of Fiber the Macro, New Market Mall, VW there race view all have a massive node that runs there and Dark Fiber Africa has brilliant coverage.

The issue comes in with the smaller providers (the on sellers) that do the residential fiber have to bulk buy bandwidth from these guys at frankly horrific pricing. Whilst there are a few of us that want fiber their business models in have seen three providers ,require at least 40 -50% interest with a conversation rate of that to 35-40% in production in three years.

I have been lobbying in my area complex to complex to complex and whilst everyone says yes getting INTEREST on a form is close to impossible. Now imagine trying to get commitment.

A lot of the time I get "I am happy with my 2mb" or " nothing wrong with my 3G"

So whilst I as fustrated and irritated, I have done the home work, worked with providers and at the end of the day its just not commercially viable for them and I can totally respect that.

Btw how I know Telkom / Huwauauauaiaiai I had their chief LTE specialist at my place as I use to use LTE and get 100mpbs easy over the last three months its 10mbps at best. They reprinted towers, checked signal cones increased the attenuation only to find out since the free me crap they introduced they grew in Alberton alone 500% the tower capacity hasn't.

** excuse the spelling typing on my Crapple and didn't have time to check

 

[myNeo]

thanks thanks.

There we're still 12-18 months away from getting any non complex residential fibre in Brackenhurst/alberton.

At the moment if I can get my line speed (20Mbps VDSL) then I'm happy with what I'm paying and getting, not that i won't mind more, but for now I can justify paying more.

Nice to know the local nodes have the bandwidth, wink wink CW, start rolling out last mile, Fiber.

G

The sad part really and brutal. I checked with the planning department (got a connection or two) the current exchanges we have. (3 of them) in the area have just been upgraded but dslam software only which doesn't help. There are no plans for hardware upgrades (which is what you need for the better line speeds) as the funding is being redirected to "areas of priority" no this is not meyersdal they could care less about them they part of Alberton. This is areas in the north of JHB the first proposed upgrade date and that fiber residential is 2020.

So the Telkom line you have now is basically the best you going to get for the next few years.

 

[georgelza]

ye, don't see me getting better than the 20Mbps over the copper I have, and I'm just about as close to the exchange (Meyersdal, 100m as the crow flies) as you can get.

Ye we have no SNR Telkom bosses that stay this side, they after all the easy big rich complexes in the north.

Best we can hope for is for someone like CW to buy capability from Vodacom, which is providing fiber into the Nature estate I believe.

G

 

[Johanagr]

I stay a street away from Makro, spoken to cool ideas isp they busy having a look if they can make a plan to get the fibre in our road

 

[myNeo]

I stay a street away from Makro, spoken to cool ideas isp they busy having a look if they can make a plan to get the fibre in our road

Which street you in cause we talking to them for Lincoln road.... We should consolidate the efforts it will make them move quicker

 

[Arzy]

Everyone should just move into Alberante and we could put up a proper concerted effort

 

[Johanagr]

Which street you in cause we talking to them for Lincoln road.... We should consolidate the efforts it will make them move quicker

I am in Doncaster road let's get this going

 

[Arzy]

Doncaster is bad...exiatimg telephone cables run half way up the street and just stop. Even the payphones have been removed.

 

[milan188]

A small section of meyersdal has openserve fibre

 

[LazyLion]

A small section of meyersdal has openserve fibre

Yep, I've seen their trucks there.

 

[milan188]

Yep, I've seen their trucks there.

It shows up on the telkom coverage map as well

 

[Arzy]

I've tried, but the missus doesn't want to move house again just because I want to be an area with Fiber.

Just seems like all the providers are forgetting about us poor blokes.

 

[myNeo]

They been to NewMarket as well, they going everywhere in Alberton. They spinning the story they been given the work by telkom and are the only ones in Alberton (BS...). But same old same old, give us 40% of the suburb first then we will think of installing fiber in your area.

Getting so tired now.

 

[cyberjj]

Done! Ordered 400 Mbps - R1499 in South Crest.
Don't think it will happen but let's try.

 

[Rickster]

I am located in GlenVista, also interested in ftth

No man, they just paved the roads perfectly now you want them to start digging them up?

 

[egenis]

Been banging the drum for Brackenhurst for some time. Fibre providers just seem to ignore me unfortunately :-( From what i can tell every single house in the area has wifi/broadband but there seems to be no interest sadly.

Me too, also in Brackenhurst. And my folks in Meyersdal.

Brackendowns too!

 

[milan188]

Crystal Web XTTH is looking like the best option. Requires 10 people to sign in a 2km square radius