Fibre in Arcadia, Pretoria

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As the topic states.

I am interested in getting ftth for myself, and I am sure that quite a few more people in the area would also be interested.
I saw some Openserv people working about a block away from me.. they came and went.
I have tried checking for availability in the area, but most of the ISP's that I tried have told me that its not available in my area yet.

What steps do I need to take to "petition" the ISP's to come and lay some fibre?
If there are any other people in the general Arcadia(Pretoria) area that's interested in fibre, please do not hesitate to PM me.
 
Pohmer said:
As the topic states.

I am interested in getting ftth for myself, and I am sure that quite a few more people in the area would also be interested.
I saw some Openserv people working about a block away from me.. they came and went.
I have tried checking for availability in the area, but most of the ISP's that I tried have told me that its not available in my area yet.

What steps do I need to take to "petition" the ISP's to come and lay some fibre?
If there are any other people in the general Arcadia(Pretoria) area that's interested in fibre, please do not hesitate to PM me.
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I am an Arcadia resident and would support such an initiative. Did you get anywhere in your attempts to organize fiber?
 
Ok so update to this is, it's pretty shotty, there is tons of politics and not enough wheelbarrows to carry all the crap.

Some (Very few) buildings in CBD have fiber deployed but because HOA's are either out of date they are out of touch or the owners don't really give a hoot. The best effort there is to get a tally so door to door and get people to sign onto a private provider so they can patrician a ISP to get coverage rolled out. But the problem is cost to access and most homes/flats don't want anything over a certain amount otherwise it's just too much. The buildings that have fiber experience a bit of trouble since there are criminals out to nab the fiber or attack the crew repairing much like jhb and parts of the country making it again pretty hard to install. I have noticed some smaller sub contractors that work for openserve actually load a building onto a prepaid system of openserve and then slowly without license to perform rollout into buildings for only a new area manager to step in inspect and remove after.

SO it's pretty crap.

Long term - not much apart from what I said about going door to door inside your building and getting interest forms filled out and then partitioning an ISP to lodge a install request to Openserve but it's like 6-12 months still.

At the moment I am working on a Open Access wifi network to try alleviate this problem, for the most part it will be live really soon around Burger Park CBD Pretoria. It's going to take me a few months but should have it all webbed out to neighboring areas since I have partnered with a few buildings that have finally seen the light. Much like tshwane free wifi, it is a project that is aimed to sustaining and slowly growing and helping people get connected.

When I know more I shall share
 
This Pretoria Fibre crap is mind-blowing. I don't know whether to cry or laugh the situation the state capital finds itself. This is something the rest of South Africa has been rolling in with biscuit wheels for years and here people are doing cut and join for Fibre. The irony is beyond belief.
 
okanime said:
This Pretoria Fibre crap is mind-blowing. I don't know whether to cry or laugh the situation the state capital finds itself. This is something the rest of South Africa has been rolling in with biscuit wheels for years and here people are doing cut and join for Fibre. The irony is beyond belief.
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In the end it's funding and the models that surround it especially cost. then you get another layers of kickbacks.

So I have launched the network, (Pretoria Wisp Open Access Wifi) it is live in CBD Pretoria, specifically Burger Park around Parkzicht Apartments. I am looking for more buildings to branch the network out to so we can spiderweb it and get fast more reliable service out to everyone. So if you know of or own a building give us a email [email protected]

I believe that it is indeed possible to run a very effective network in town, at certain points fiber would be installed fiber/wireless backhauls. Cost effective with keys points on affordability to residents and reliability. Fiber deployments to build or trench from the local PON is terrifying cause wayleafs have to be signed and political issues then arise and then it gets bogged down.
 
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