DFA planning retrenchments

[Jan]

DFA staff retrenchments planned

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is embarking on a restructuring process that will see significant staff cuts at the wholesale fibre infrastructure provider.

DFA started rolling out fibre infrastructure in 2007 to transmit metro and long-haul telecommunications traffic.

 

[The_MAC]

Not that much money to be made selling L2 services..

 

[freematrix]

Not that much money to be made selling L2 services..

I beg to differ. They make the bulk of the money your ISP charges. Probably nearly 80% or more on many occasions.
This is a company becoming lean before they sell for billions.

 

[The_MAC]

I beg to differ. They make the bulk of the money your ISP charges. Probably nearly 80% or more on many occasions.
This is a company becoming lean before they sell for billions.

Nah, with an ever decreasing Rand/Mb rate, there is only so much you can make selling connectivity. The money is in Layer 3 services..

 

[Ferog]

Wow a bit shocked but they're probably bloated from all the acquisitions aswell.