ISPA releases national fibre mapping project report

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South Africans have minimal choice of fibre provider — ISPA

The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) has released the results of its Open Access Network mapping project, revealing that customers in the country have no choice of fibre service provider.

This is according to Sasha Booth Beharilal, ISPA chairperson, who said the results show that customers don't get the pricing and quality benefits of infrastructure or service-based competition.
 
Syphonx said:
Not surprising, laying fibre is expensive. Laying fibre to an area with an existing provider is a complete waste of money
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Unfortunate, but true.

My experience; we had Vumatel promising to lay fibre in our area but not delivering. So when a metrofibre contractor started trenching for a large complex in our area. All the home owners got together and drafted a letter to Metrofibre promising that the community would sign-up with them, met with our ward councilor to request that he help them get way permits, and even landed up chasing away a community construction mafia that tried to harass the contractors.

Once Metrofibre broke ground for the whole suburb, Vuma pitch up with an update that they where just delayed because they where trying to get their permit converted from trenched fibre to aerial fibre... Long story short, vuma pulled out and landed up selling their two existing manholes to the mfn contractor.
 
So 70% of Western Cape households have more than one fibre network option?

I think the data is BS.
 
I doubt the figures are accurate. Of the area surrounding us I'm not a aware of any area with more than one provider.
 
Swa said:
I doubt the figures are accurate. Of the area surrounding us I'm not an aware of any area with more than one provider.
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You just know more than everyone don’t you.
 
SwimGeek said:
So 70% of Western Cape households have more than one fibre network option?

I think the data is BS.
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Sounds pretty likely to me. Even we here in Durban have both Vuma and Openserve plus multiple ISP options and line speeds.
 
Aghori said:
Sounds pretty likely to me. Even we here in Durban have both Vuma and Openserve plus multiple ISP options and line speeds.
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This is not about ISPs and line speeds.

I think 80% of people in the western cape have only 1 FNO option.
 
Data is probably 1yr old, but... last time I checked about 80% of people had one FNO option

Areas with choice:


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SwimGeek said:
So 70% of Western Cape households have more than one fibre network option?

I think the data is BS.
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Data seems to be at a suburb level. So a suburb can have multiple FNO's within it, each occupying a part of that suburb, but not every house in that suburb can connect to all of them. This is in line with my experience as well.
 
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