Inside a fibre assembly plant

[Daniel Puchert]

Behind the scenes of a fibre assembly plant in South Africa

MyBroadband was recently invited to take a tour of Dartcom's optic fibre cable manufacturing plant, where we were given a tour of the production line, providing a closer look at how one company produces 12,000 kilometres of cable per year.

South Africa has a small fibre manufacturing industry, consisting of only a handful of local operators, including Weinert Industries (formerly CBi Telecoms), Yangtze Optics Africa (YOA) Cable, and Dartcom Fibre Solutions.

 

[rh1]

Behind the scenes of a fibre assembly plant in South Africa

MyBroadband was recently invited to take a tour of Dartcom's optic fibre cable manufacturing plant, where we were given a tour of the production line, providing a closer look at how one company produces 12,000 kilometres of cable per year.

South Africa has a small fibre manufacturing industry, consisting of only a handful of local operators, including Weinert Industries (formerly CBi Telecoms), Yangtze Optics Africa (YOA) Cable, and Dartcom Fibre Solutions.

I also been to fibre cereal plant.

 

[epah]

A nyaope boys wet dream.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Daniel- back in the bad old days we had STC who made fibre optic cable. New take on old takkie.
Some of us old toppies were around, working for the PT back then mate.

 

[FiestaST]

A nyaope boys wet dream.

Like this?

 

[gotaway]

Although Maseko said it would be better if Weinhert had a higher rating, the South African government still penalised Telkom for acquiring from a company rated level 4. This is because Telkom is majority-owned by the state.

The BEE regulations also make it easy for an importer to set up shop in Durban with two employees and get a Level 1 BEE score.

He said this contributes to the de-industrialisation of South Africa’s fibre sector while supporting another country’s industrialisation in the process.

Just in case anybody forgets. The government will rather send money/jobs/opportunities out the country than to a local company , employing local people just because the local company is not "black enough"

 

[Bliksis]

An article that also highlights BEE requirements.

 

[eddief1]

I had a horrible experience trying to buy from Dartcom

 

[kilos]

STC Boksburg was manufacturing fibre back in 1987 for Telkom (then P&T)