Fibre in Bryanston?

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Hi, I'm looking for information on plans for residential (?) fibre installations in Bryanston - if any.

By now I have lost track of the number of times the sidewalks in our streets have been dug up for the laying of new fibre. There are new manholes to provide access to these cables all over the place. This week a team started trenching down Pont St from the existing Telkom box (old tech copper). But a quick search of this forum for 'Bryanston' produced no hits.

I'm guessing that increasing densification and high disposable incomes should make Bryanston an attractive target for FTTH deployments, but as of today my street is no better off than when Telkom first rolled out ADSL. Worse off, in fact, since old copper continues to degrade best-case line speeds, and exchange congestion makes ADSL virtually unusable at night.

I'd settle for VDSL, coupled with a major exchange backhaul upgrade - but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Anyone with news?
 
moron51 said:
Hi, I'm looking for information on plans for residential (?) fibre installations in Bryanston - if any.

By now I have lost track of the number of times the sidewalks in our streets have been dug up for the laying of new fibre. There are new manholes to provide access to these cables all over the place. This week a team started trenching down Pont St from the existing Telkom box (old tech copper). But a quick search of this forum for 'Bryanston' produced no hits.

I'm guessing that increasing densification and high disposable incomes should make Bryanston an attractive target for FTTH deployments, but as of today my street is no better off than when Telkom first rolled out ADSL. Worse off, in fact, since old copper continues to degrade best-case line speeds, and exchange congestion makes ADSL virtually unusable at night.

I'd settle for VDSL, coupled with a major exchange backhaul upgrade - but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Anyone with news?
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Telkom is busy with FTTH in your suburb. Should be active before Christmas.
 
Wireless is cheaper - really?

lived666 said:
Or any other wireless, there are better than bitco, just check who is in your area - it is reliable and a fraction of the cost of fibre.
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Wireless example: Bitco 5Mbps R899pm on contract ('free' hardware)

Fibre example: Vumatel 4Mpbs uncapped R499pm + R2499 installation

Or for the hungry...

Wireless example: Bitco 10Mbps R1499pm on contract ('free' hardware)

Fibre example: Vumatel 50Mpbs uncapped R1299pm + R2499 installation
 
moron51 said:
Wireless example: Bitco 5Mbps R899pm on contract ('free' hardware)

Fibre example: Vumatel 4Mpbs uncapped R499pm + R2499 installation

Or for the hungry...

Wireless example: Bitco 10Mbps R1499pm on contract ('free' hardware)

Fibre example: Vumatel 50Mpbs uncapped R1299pm + R2499 installation
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Ok interesting rates, must look at that, was comparing to yesterdays mybb article regarding neohells fibre reduction rates.
 
So it's been ten months since my original post.
Another trench just went past my front gate - more fibre being installed. (Why oh why? Surely the smart thing to do would have been for Joburg Metro to have contracted for a neutral vendor to lay trunking that could have been shared by multiple networks?)

Telkom has deployed some islands of FTTH, buy a look at their coverage map shows a large swathe of Bryanston's east side, from Eccleston down to the river, and from William Nicol/Ballyclare to the highway - untouched by FTTH or VDSL. The fibre is in the ground, so what's stopping the network companies?
ADSL service in our area is poor due to long distances from the exchange, and old copper. The advent of streaming video is going to expose this still further. Isn't there a commercial opportunity going begging here?
 
Old people use computers too...
Meneer (or is it Ms) Tuinvurk, I am in Wilton Avenue, north of Bryanston Drive and west of the river. Slap bang in the middle of the 'no service' area.
Our gamer desktop, two laptops, two tablets, two smartphones and a student desktop use 50+ GB/mo, and we're very sensitive to QoS. We're also sensitive to cost though, so I really hope we don't wind up with the overpriced, undersized bundles that MTN seems to have sold BRCF on.
 
moron51 said:
Old people use computers too...
Meneer (or is it Ms) Tuinvurk, I am in Wilton Avenue, north of Bryanston Drive and west of the river. Slap bang in the middle of the 'no service' area.
Our gamer desktop, two laptops, two tablets, two smartphones and a student desktop use 50+ GB/mo, and we're very sensitive to QoS. We're also sensitive to cost though, so I really hope we don't wind up with the overpriced, undersized bundles that MTN seems to have sold BRCF on.
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Ummm...

BRCF, Parkmore, etc. Didn't choose anything.

MTN has wayleave to dig in the municipal property. Unless you go to court, you are not stopping them.

Same as happened in Sunninghill with Metrofibre... They just put it in. Fibre providers don't need residents permission to put in services in the municipality owned sidewalks. They just need municipal approval.

It's only the communities that manage to lure the small players (thag only have capital to do one or two suburbs at a time) that go the route of "resident needing to buy-in" /RFP process. They need high buy-in and upfront payments to afford the capital layout. The big players don't have that issue. Hence the move to not need to put down upfront amount to get fibre for your house from the big players.
 
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