Fibre to the Home report explained

Anything is possible but at what price ?:eek:

Verizon FIOS pricing FYI
$140/m 50 Mb/s d/l & 20Mb/s u/l
$65/m 25 Mb/s d/l & 15Mb/s u/l
$45/m 15 Mb/s d/l & 5 Mb/s u/l

I know this is not USA, just an interesting comparison.
 
I think a few things are important here:

--DFA is not a service provider...they only provide infrastructure to service providers
--The cost of getting fibre to residential properties is very high in SA…not likely son
--People in gated estates may see FTTH first – it is in fact already available in some estates
--While FTTH will provide very high potential last mile speeds, backhaul bandwidth costs will be the real cost barrier (no use to have a 100 Mbps service with a 10 GB cap or slow backhaul)
 
kilos said:
Anything is possible but at what price?
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Take a look at Sweden! Everyone has fibre and speeds of up to 1 Gigabit a sec. It just depends if there are many ISP and if you get that it will drop prices. Here in SA with just Telkom in charge.... I think you get my point^^
 
Well there is also a national pride issue. If the government wants us to have cheap (never mind fast) internet, it will happen with proper legislation and regulation. I think there is a skills barrier too. Our government is not skilled enough to make these type of changes efficiently. All kinds of breads have to be buttered before anything really moves. What ever happened to LLU?

Anybody ever wonder about that?!!? If the local loop was unbundled then Neotel could compete in the fixed line household business, but now they are neatly kept away from really competing.
 
The closest that DFA will bring fibre to our houses is FTTC - fibre to the curb, e.g. to the boundary of gated complexes.

What has happened elsewhere, like The Netherlands, is that the encumbent (kpn) forms a joint venture with another company. kpn provide the fibre to an Optical Distribution Frame that is owned by the JV. Everything from the ODF to the customer is then supplied and owned by the JV.

This model is possible in selected areas in South Africa, as Telkom already has ODFs all over the place (UMCs, etc). Currently there is copper from the UMC to the customers.

By installing an ODF at the UMC, we can very quickly roll out FttC and FttH. Because of the shorter distances, the fibre can be carried on the existing overhead network (poles) and does not have to be buried in pipes/ducts.

The JV will then be responsible to maintain the network from the ODF to the customer, either by doing it themself or outsourcing it to a third party.
 
LOL!

DFA = Dark Fibre Africa
FttC = Fibre to the Curb
FttH = Fibre to the Home
kpn = The Netherland's "Telkom"
ODF = Optical Distribution Frame
JV = Joint Venture
UMC = digital loop carrier system
 
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