Fibre: Secunda Community

Silly question I know, but has someone tried contacting Kalin on twitter? I dont use twitter.
 
Since I'm tired of waiting .... show DFA some love and spark some interest in the FTTH community in the TEKS area;

Open your browser, navigate to http://www.dfafrica.co.za/contact/ and complete your details and select the "fiber to the home" option to show your interest. Just type in a short message requesting fiber to home in Secunda and surrounding areas.

That's it!
 
Think a mod should change the the title of this thread to "Who will bring fibre to Secunda". After looking at their facebook and twitter pages, it seems to me that 123net is dead.
 
JvanD said:
Since I'm tired of waiting .... show DFA some love and spark some interest in the FTTH community in the TEKS area;

Open your browser, navigate to http://www.dfafrica.co.za/contact/ and complete your details and select the "fiber to the home" option to show your interest. Just type in a short message requesting fiber to home in Secunda and surrounding areas.

That's it!
Click to expand...

So how do you want to go about this then?
They are not an isp... or are they? They have no pricing on any ftth products.
Say we fill in that form, how many requests do they need to consider Secunda? What will construction cost? I know they have a ring of fibre just lying here underground waiting to be used. We need more info. I have no problem filling in the form, just need some additional info. Did you get an automated reply atleast once you filled in the form?
Just some basic questions =P
 
If we can get DFA to be the fibre provider. and lay the fibre to our homes, Other ISPs can dish it out for the service.
I would most certainly pay DFA to install the fibre equipment on a once off if need be.

If it's open access fibre then ISPs like openweb, Mweb, Webafrica, etc. can offer packages for either capped or uncapped. providing they're willing to make more money from the boatload of people in Secunda that are tired of being forcefed 20 year old copper lines with high snr and slow speeds at telkom's rediculous pricing.
 
Alex$The$Alien said:
If we can get DFA to be the fibre provider. and lay the fibre to our homes, Other ISPs can dish it out for the service.
I would most certainly pay DFA to install the fibre equipment on a once off if need be.

If it's open access fibre then ISPs like openweb, Mweb, Webafrica, etc. can offer packages for either capped or uncapped. providing they're willing to make more money from the boatload of people in Secunda that are tired of being forcefed 20 year old copper lines with high snr and slow speeds at telkom's rediculous pricing.
Click to expand...

We wont get them to be a provider if we dont get enough people to sign up. We dont have the number of sign ups that they require (it will most probably differ from place to place), guess we will have to wait on the replies from the forms we filled in, DFA seems to be the better option since they are already here (well sorta).

I agree with Alex that wee need to get away from uselesskom, but it is going to take a combined effort to achieve this. Once we get the number required from DFA then we can start advertising or go door to door to spread the word while trying to convince them that DFA wont just go quiet like 123net did.
 
jackshiels said:
I've said this before but I'll say it again: do a survey, gather data and send out an RFP to get the best deal. Relying on one provider is never a good strategy.
Click to expand...

Agreed, monopoly in the making. If they sense desperation in getting fibre from them, they will adjust prices accordingly.
 
Hi. Last night at work I was applying to all the fiber to the home ISP's,etc I could find. Mweb called me and suggested we start a petition or something along those lines to try get Telekom to start in our area. Has anyone started a list or petition? I also tried light speed. They said it is possible to connect me but they will have to be able to get R11347 along the fiber route to my house per month. That would be Nelson Mandela drive and Voortrekker Street. Does any one know how many people in secunda area want fiber?
 
Vash1628 said:
Hi. Last night at work I was applying to all the fiber to the home ISP's,etc I could find. Mweb called me and suggested we start a petition or something along those lines to try get Telekom to start in our area. Has anyone started a list or petition? I also tried light speed. They said it is possible to connect me but they will have to be able to get R11347 along the fiber route to my house per month. That would be Nelson Mandela drive and Voortrekker Street. Does any one know how many people in secunda area want fiber?
Click to expand...

I'll start one after work tonight
 
jackshiels said:
I've said this before but I'll say it again: do a survey, gather data and send out an RFP to get the best deal. Relying on one provider is never a good strategy.
Click to expand...

Go this route! Send out a RFP and you could be surprised at who turns up
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X