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broken1

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I got an email from CAP (security company) that they in conjunction with Fibrehoods are rolling out fibre in Highlands North.

I went to register my interest and it said my address is ready, took me all the way through for ISP Signup. My application is now in Waiting Site Survey.

I don't see any Fibre infrastructure (they said arial infrastructure) but I know they were going live in Norwood, a few kms away this month. Anyone have information?

https://portal.fibrehoods.co.za is where I signed up
 
It seems to be a common tactic to get as many people to signup as possible. In reality if the infrastructure is not yet their it can take months for it to be rolled out.
 
Looney said:
Wtf is Air Fibre? I live in Glenhazel. Is Glenhazel covered?
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Instead of putting the fibre in the ground, they simply put up a couple of wooden poles, and run the fibre above ground, like telephone cables, seems to be the option of choice, to get the fibre infrastructure down as quick as possible.

Glenhazel does not seem to be covered yet, which is a bit strange, but you never know, they could start any day now.....
 
David, do you know if they running on Wooden Poles on one side of the street and Powerlines on the other?

I see wooden poles but opp side of the street from me
 
So normally they use the Street light poles and the wooden poles are added in when they need to cross a road or create a termination point into a property.
 
Meh, no one ever comes to my area. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us.
 
They doing Linksfield (DFA), Sydenham, Norwood, Waverly. I am sure Glenhazel is coming.

Cap is driving the initiative. All the sign up comms I got was from CAP.
 
However I find it a little surprising that Highlands North is getting it before Glenhazel? or it could be that they are slowing rolling out from West to East, so from Parkview->Craighall->Illovo->Melrose->Highlands North......Perhaps Norwood next, then Waverly and so on....
 
David said:
However I find it a little surprising that Highlands North is getting it before Glenhazel? or it could be that they are slowing rolling out from West to East, so from Parkview->Craighall->Illovo->Melrose->Highlands North......Perhaps Norwood next, then Waverly and so on....
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Then I'm gonna be waiting a long time :(
 
broken1 said:
They doing Linksfield (DFA), Sydenham, Norwood, Waverly. I am sure Glenhazel is coming.

Cap is driving the initiative. All the sign up comms I got was from CAP.
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They not doing Norwood, well at least not the part I live in. We stuck with Vulacom!! These chumps have been faffing around since they won the Norwood tender, last year June.

Funnily enough Fibrehoods were the other contenders but CAP/NORA went with Vulacom and it's been a waiting game ever since.
 
sand_man said:
They not doing Norwood, well at least not the part I live in. We stuck with Vulacom!! These chumps have been faffing around since they won the Norwood tender, last year June.

Funnily enough Fibrehoods were the other contenders but CAP/NORA went with Vulacom and it's been a waiting game ever since.
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Maybe CAP learnt from their mistake with Vulacom and gave it to Fibrehoods instead for Highlands North
 
Looney said:
Maybe CAP learnt from their mistake with Vulacom and gave it to Fibrehoods instead for Highlands North
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Could very well be!! Either way I'm pretty fcked off with the decision. I've had Telkom LTE for the last 4 months and performance is stellar so tbh, I'm not really phased either way.
 
sand_man said:
Could very well be!! Either way I'm pretty fcked off with the decision. I've had Telkom LTE for the last 4 months and performance is stellar so tbh, I'm not really phased either way.
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You're lucky at least to have LTE. Best I have is Telkom ADSL 4mb. Funnily enough I'm one of the very few houses in my neighborhood that can actually sync at 4mb. Everyone else is stuck at like 2mb.
 
Yup Me to, Hence the LTE alternative in the meantime! In General I find that Telkom are pretty good at deploying LTE fairly quickly into the areas where they are aware that they will not have Fibre infrastructure them selves in the very near future.
 
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