To give you some insight here, the ISP's fibre ring cannot have a distance of more than 5km between access points on the DFA connection, so very few to no providers are going to extend their ring into Brakpan at this point in time until DFA change their product offering to network operators. If this limitation was lifted, you'd see far greater uptake and far more FTTH/B offerings extending out of metropolitan areas.
This is why ISPs perform feasibility checks, to determine 1) last mile distance as this will typically be a new access build at substantial cost (roughly R400-R500 per metre); and 2) distance to the nearest existing access node on the ISP's fibre "ring". You can gain access on an ad-hoc basis from the network provider/ISP but the costs will be substantial to the ISP and to you, because if it's not in a high-demand area you as the ISP will not be able to leverage the "new backhaul" link with other clients, or you'll find the price charged by the tier 1 operator (DFA in this case) to be outside of your reasonable risk profile or price-points, or both, or...well, you get the picture. A network operator must build for the future and not for "right now" and this poses serious issues on a pricing basis as your capital expenditure goes into better ROI projects. If your build cannot tie into the operator's existing infrastructure then new infrastructure must be purchased at a substantial cost, and that cost must be passed on to the business or consumer as there's no way to carry that cost for the sake of it.
Simply having a fibre link close to you does not mean you can easily gain access to it. At least not on a reasonable cost basis at this point in time. This will change in the future...
This is why ISPs perform feasibility checks, to determine 1) last mile distance as this will typically be a new access build at substantial cost (roughly R400-R500 per metre); and 2) distance to the nearest existing access node on the ISP's fibre "ring". You can gain access on an ad-hoc basis from the network provider/ISP but the costs will be substantial to the ISP and to you, because if it's not in a high-demand area you as the ISP will not be able to leverage the "new backhaul" link with other clients, or you'll find the price charged by the tier 1 operator (DFA in this case) to be outside of your reasonable risk profile or price-points, or both, or...well, you get the picture. A network operator must build for the future and not for "right now" and this poses serious issues on a pricing basis as your capital expenditure goes into better ROI projects. If your build cannot tie into the operator's existing infrastructure then new infrastructure must be purchased at a substantial cost, and that cost must be passed on to the business or consumer as there's no way to carry that cost for the sake of it.
Simply having a fibre link close to you does not mean you can easily gain access to it. At least not on a reasonable cost basis at this point in time. This will change in the future...
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