How to get fibre-to-the-home rolled out to your neighbourhood

The biggest problem is probably people not knowing what it is or how it works so you have to end up explaining it to them for half an hour. When you announce a fibre drive I also think most people think you want to make your neighbourhood more regular. :D
 
I just want people in Bellville to sign up with 123net

MyBB should promote them they have a much better business plan than any current provider
 
Thor187 said:
I just want people in Bellville to sign up with 123net

MyBB should promote them they have a much better business plan than any current provider
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I also am trying to promote them, the issue is the custom price plan they told me of is not on their site and their site has dead links.
If they fixed it up, it would be a lot easier to promote them. Still got about 20 people to sign up though.
 
MyBB - what about setting up a survey , and then distributing it to all the fiber partners?

even just the MyBB community will make a huge impression onthe fiber requirement out there?
 
One thing I reaslised from the building I'm currently in - you have to push the developers to roll fibre into each place from the start (like FTTH, not these community fibre/ethernet hybrids). Its dirt cheap at that stage vs retrofitting places. Cheap to the point where the real estate agent forgot to mention its already wired for fibre...

Thor187 said:
MyBB should promote them they have a much better business plan than any current provider
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I suspect mybb staff has better things to do with their time.
 
Thor187 said:
I just want people in Bellville to sign up with 123net

MyBB should promote them they have a much better business plan than any current provider
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I don't agree. They don't have ANY business plan from what I've seen.
 
@Thir187 - WHere about in Bellville do you reside as I am also interested in FTTH.
 
Thor187 said:
I just want people in Bellville to sign up with 123net

MyBB should promote them they have a much better business plan than any current provider
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I personally don't understand the appeal of 123Net. They are a locked provider with no open access. Going with them means that it is unlikely another provider will enter your area. It creates monopoly...
 
jackshiels said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of 123Net. They are a locked provider with no open access. Going with them means that it is unlikely another provider will enter your area. It creates monopoly...
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I have spoken to them, they say they are open to other providers on their line.

The thing is, it is still quite a bit cheaper to have them offer you internet access than to run your ISP portion through anyone else. In most of Europe your ISP is also your line provider, if you want to swap providers the new provider usually "buys"/rents the line from the original line provider.

This of course depends on the country and company.
 
Have a look at http://constantiafibre.com/

Constantia took the approach of going neutral and selecting an open provider based on the RFQ. Everything you need (content, process etc) is documented, thank you largely to the vision and efforts of certain key organisations and individuals and so it's a lot of cut-and-paste.
 
jackshiels said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of 123Net. They are a locked provider with no open access. Going with them means that it is unlikely another provider will enter your area. It creates monopoly...
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Going the selection route only works if you have large residents associations. Funny how everyone and their dog now has a signup page after they introduced it. I don't really care if 123Net is the best provider as once providers see there are people with fibre in an area they want to provide it and if 123Net folds the fibre is there for others to use cheaply.
 
jackshiels said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of 123Net. They are a locked provider with no open access. Going with them means that it is unlikely another provider will enter your area. It creates monopoly...
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Go to their website look at the prices look at the free 5Mbps uncapped etc no other isp offer this enriching value.

This is what SA needs

We tried to get decent Internet in century city at hour place... Fml what a colossal fck up.
 
Thor187 said:
Hey I'm in Tygerwaterfront.

Go to Facebook and follow this page:
https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=862645647149631
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We are asking the community to bring broadband fibre to Bellville. To join a member must either reside in Bellville or have an affiliation to the town (e.g. a business).

The chosen provider will be 123Net. For Bellville to get connected, the area must receive an interest of at least 300 sign-ups that will be willing to take the service.
Requests can be made on the following website https://123net.co.za/en/front/forms/home
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Sounds very familiar. :) Problem with it is you can't control who signs up. I've already turned down 10 requests from people not connected to Brakpan at all that can't seem to read. So pretty soon if not already your page is going to be diluted by the whole South Africa with no focus on Bellville and just an ad for 123Net.
 
Swa said:
Sounds very familiar. :) Problem with it is you can't control who signs up. I've already turned down 10 requests from people not connected to Brakpan at all that can't seem to read. So pretty soon if not already your page is going to be diluted by the whole South Africa with no focus on Bellville and just an ad for 123Net.
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I also reject those not directly in Bellville, but honestly it's more advertisement for them, which I have no problem with the more people that know of them the better, these oaks can bring serious change in SA if everything is true, still seems a bit too good to be true, but for the time being having just went through years of BS to get a premise connected in century city I will do everything I can to promote 123net as a whole.
 
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