Fibre in Strand

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Hi All

I have been trying to get ISP's to take interest in Fibre, in Strand for a while now (and last week I noticed yellow fibre trunking being installed down Broadway about 200m from my house). Last year Feb the feedback from Cybersmart was:

"We have checked on the location provided and it falls into an area
that has live fibre infrastructure but the central fibre node needed
to provide connectivity has not been completed as yet by our provider.
We have received an estimated date during the 2nd quarter this year."

This year it is:

"I have checked on the location provided by you and although it falls
into the general fibre coverage area, your road does not currently have
an active fibre circuit installed.
We can make the FTTH services available to your location and your
neighbours' from the closest fibre route, which is on De Vos Street,
provided we can obtain approximate combined customer uptake of R10 000
per month along the new fibre route. Please bear in mind that each
additional address will change the minimum uptake amount, as the
distance is the main factor affecting the feasibility."

Other ISP's have considerably higher minimum signup's required so I would like to get a feel for the amount of people interested? DFA seems to have infrastructure in the vicinity: http://www.dfafrica.co.za/coverage/

Am I really the only one interested in the area?
 
Also in Strand, close to BP/Spar.

I must have FTTH, I need FTTH.
 
How do we get FTTH!!! Really need. Also Strand, in Die Bos area
 
@TelkomZA

Is this Telkom fibre being installed running down Broadway Blvd (-34.101320, 18.830821)? This was taken on the corner of Broadway Blvd and Da Gama Street.

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The yellow is City of Cape Town. There are midst a massive fibre digging project in the Helderberg basin.

The guys doing the actually digging have told us that the red / orange duct that us being laid at the same time is for Vodacom.

Unfortunately, we're still stuck in Ocean View.

http://www.ocean-view.cc

There's just not enough interest to justify the cost of digging. You can't dig for two people in a complex, or three people in all of Strand North.
 
portcullis said:
The yellow is City of Cape Town. There are midst a massive fibre digging project in the Helderberg basin.

The guys doing the actually digging have told us that the red / orange duct that us being laid at the same time is for Vodacom.

Unfortunately, we're still stuck in Ocean View.

http://www.ocean-view.cc

There's just not enough interest to justify the cost of digging. You can't dig for two people in a complex, or three people in all of Strand North.
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Would that then be part of the huge tender that went out about 3 years ago, for all municipal buildings in the Western Cape to be connected with 1Gbit connectivity? They do lease out unused dark fibre pairs for ISP's as far as I am aware. I did check your site earlier, unfortunately I am in De Vos street, and rather far away from your closest POP. Strand's Telkom DSLAM's are extremely congested and bandwidth constrained.
 
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I would legitimately consider selling my house in Deiningdal for a place that has fibre. The DFA infrastructure runs on George street which is about 5 minutes walk away from my place.
My telkom line has degraded from performing great at a 20mbps sync to only just syncing at 8mbps over the past 2 years :(
 
axisK said:
I would legitimately consider selling my house in Deiningdal for a place that has fibre. (
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Our ops manager researched this with an estate agent last year.

They looked at houses in Heritage Park in The Vines and Heritage Villas and compared prices of the units that were wired for FTTH to the ones that weren't.

The wired units sold much quicker than the ones that weren't wired up, at up to R50K per house more.
 
portcullis said:
The wired units sold much quicker than the ones that weren't wired up, at up to R50K per house more.
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The fibre to the home council has issued a statement that FTTH increases your property value by around $5k - which is pretty close to the 50k you mention.

As we see a rapid fibre roll out over the next few years, I imagine that fibre would become the norm (as in - "does the house have a telephone line" will now be "does the house have fibre")
 
portcullis said:
@zeely, how's your dig?
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Slow. We're greenfields, so its a manual slog. And to top it off, the estate's infrastructure is an unbelievable mess. NOTHING is where it should be according to the plans. They've gone 500m and hit the water main 6 times already. They eventually brought in ground scanners to map out where the stuff actually is, but even then, the guys doing the actual swinging of the pick, don't always take notice, and they managed to hit the water main the day after the scanning was completed.

However, the last week has been a lot better and we havent had any disruptions. Hauwei are throwing a tonne of resources at this, so they still expect to be complete on schedule.

On a different note - I see telkom is digging up the whole of somerset west in an effort to accelerate their fibre roll out.
 
zeely said:
On a different note - I see telkom is digging up the whole of somerset west in an effort to accelerate their fibre roll out.
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We're seeing this too.

The new MSAN just outside of Heritage Park has 6 GPON ports ready to compete for our customer base...
 
portcullis said:
We're seeing this too.

The new MSAN just outside of Heritage Park has 6 GPON ports ready to compete for our customer base...
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According to the SAIX page there is a major amount of MSAN installations going live nationally. Two Somerset West MSAN's are supposed to go live today:

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Sales are suddenly receiving an increased number of calls from people wanting to drop their "terrible" ADSLs and switch to wireless.
 
Ok, so two things. I have confirmed that the fibre being installed above is not DFA. They do however have fibre in the area already, and provide service to the Cellular providers in the church on the corner of Da Gama and Broadway:

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Telkom has updated their coverage map to indicate that they are in the process of rolling out VDSL in Strand :D:

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It is not fibre, but it is better than nothing.
 
Eish... I'm on the corner of Da Gama and Henning.

The fibre point is literally 500m away from my house. So close and yet so far.
 
I don't recognize the exchange, and don't know where it is located, but the first MSAN migration in Strand is scheduled.

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Isn't Braeview the big exchange in Steynsrust Rd?

It could be that Telkom are preparing for their FTTH rollout in the Helderview complexes that decided to go with Telkom.
 
That might be it for Somerset West yes. However, I have no clue where RST2 - SMHC is supposed to be, and with only 21 active lines affected, it can't be a big DSLAM.
 
portcullis is right - braeview is the one in helderview. But i thought that exchange was already offering fibre?

interesting to see they're switching a bunch of exchanges over at once.

where did you get that log from?
 
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