Eastern Cape Fibre plans?????

DFA has been doing this all over the place in SA, they actually came to EL for a change too!
Its an open access network that will allow 3rd parties to provide services across it and will have possibilities for fibre to workplaces and homes depending on pricing.
You can already get Neotel fibre in some places in EL but this should cover a wider area. There are still lots of open trenches all over the place where they are laying the trunking and then fibre will be blown a bit later.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
DFA has been doing this all over the place in SA, they actually came to EL for a change too!
Its an open access network that will allow 3rd parties to provide services across it and will have possibilities for fibre to workplaces and homes depending on pricing.
You can already get Neotel fibre in some places in EL but this should cover a wider area. There are still lots of open trenches all over the place where they are laying the trunking and then fibre will be blown a bit later.
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I would like to be optimistic about this....

I have these trenches [some of them have been covered up already] in Oxford Street, Frere Road, near Hudson Park, and Nahoon so far, but nothing in Selborne, which is why I was wondering whether only selected areas will be getting fibre. Unless some wireless wizardy is planned[?]

A Neotel representative has already spoken to our comms guy about fibre for our new offices. [We're moving at the end of the year.]
 
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Andaeriel said:
A Neotel representative has already spoken to our comms guy about fibre for our new offices. [We're moving at the end of the year.]
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Make sure you have a backup broadband solution - do not put all your eggs in the Neotel basket,
this will hurt you - been on Neotel since September and we have had so many 20 fault reports
where with Telkom ADSL - one failure in 2 years, down for 3hrs -DSLAM card failure.

Neotel speeds are great, but when it fails, failover provider is important, one time we were down for 2 days.
 
Andaeriel said:
I would like to be optimistic about this....

I have these trenches [some of them have been covered up already] in Oxford Street, Frere Road, near Hudson Park, and Nahoon so far, but nothing in Selborne, which is why I was wondering whether only selected areas will be getting fibre. Unless some wireless wizardy is planned[?]

A Neotel representative has already spoken to our comms guy about fibre for our new offices. [We're moving at the end of the year.]
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Telkom's exchange is in Frere Road (Cambridge). There is also a fibre to a 'box' next to Selborne College.... amongst others.
 
DFA Pricing :whistle:
Metro Rental Rates, per meter
Includes monitoring and maintenance Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Permanent Repairs
The unit rate = price per fibre pair for the applicable lease period x line of sight or straight distance
between two sites x routing factor of 1.4

Fibre Pairs 1 Pair
1 Year R 16.40/m
2 Year R 9.11/m
3 Year R 6.75/m
4 Year R 5.63/m
5 Year R 5.00/m
10 Year R 3.75/m
15 Year R 3.01/m

Example: 1 pair fiber = 5000m x 1.4 (routing factor) x R5.00/m (5 year period) = R35k/month

Excludes Connection fee, Fiber transmission equipment on either end and trenching
 
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