How much does a Fibre network actually cost

[Johnatan56]

It's different on Openserve. We pay per ONU - that's the OFB, but then we have to pay extra for the IPC. The IPC is the connection from their DC to our DC. That's expensive. I stand corrected on pricing, but it's a couple of hundred Rand per Mb. And that is why all ISPs have to contend Openweb services. If I were to give you a 1:1 50Mb on Openserve, the price would be a couple of thousand Rand a month.

Openserve have in the past talked about doing away with IPC, but for now it's still here.

I think that the speed-up of "retirement" of xDSL services is how OpenServe is going to do it as they can't really separate xDSL and fiber, if they make IPC cheaper in order to be competitive on fiber, then they will lose money on their xDSL base. This is besides the copper theft issue (both in theft and age).

Maseko did say they want to move their network to be 90%+ fiber or LTE by end of 2020.

So as DSL gets shut down, we'll maybe start seeing OpenServe prices begin to decline.

 

[portcullis]

Only the OLT requires power.

Depending on the brand of OLT, it can sit up to 20km from the ONU.