Fibre

Mr.CookieMonster said:
Why is fibre expensive? I thought they do not use Telkom for anything.
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Trenching costs - digging up the pavements, road, re-surfacing the trenched section
Wayleaves permission from the Municipality , Telkom
Splicing the Fiber from the closest Manhole/Joint to your rack
Customer Premise Equipment-
Project Management - procurement, planning, configuration, installation
 
I will have to Google a bit, but I remember reading that a local fiber supplier can route fiber through sewer lines right to your house. They still need to get municipal approval, but there is minimum disruption to roads and fencing.
If you live in a security complex, speak to all your neighbours. It will reduce the costs if a whole lot of peeps install at the same time.
 
Provo48 said:
I will have to Google a bit, but I remember reading that a local fiber supplier can route fiber through sewer lines right to your house. They still need to get municipal approval, but there is minimum disruption to roads and fencing.
If you live in a security complex, speak to all your neighbours. It will reduce the costs if a whole lot of peeps install at the same time.
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adds a whole new meaning to shyte broadband :D
 
My office has 2x fibre connections, 1x ADSL, 1x ISDN, 1x Microwave and we used to have a WiMax connection too... and we're not even an ISP :D
We're actually very fortunate to have fibre connectivity, seeing that our neighbours run like a data warehouse, who has tonnes of Internet capacity.

Besides the trenches and cable laying to your premises, the cable splicing is one real big issue.
Splicing requires extremely expensive equipment (~R200k if I'm not mistaken), so not every Telkom technician can afford to have one!

For ADSL lines you don't need expensive equipment at all.

Oh and if someone tells you that Microwave links aren't affected by bad weather (or that its uptime is as good as a leased line) then they're talking BS. Our Microwave link supplier now has to lay a fibre link to their microwave tower, because our microwave link's uptime is terrible due to heavy rains.
 
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