Openserve Aerial

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So we got a letter in our post box today saying Nokia will be rolling out OpenServe Fibre, and the area manager has told me it's an aerial installation.

I'm already on MTN Fibre and have no intention on moving to O/S at the moment but it's nice to have an option.

My question is: It says they need access to my property to install, I assume they will just put a box on the exterior of the property somewhere - as I'm not actually signing up with OS?

With MTN trenched there is a mini man-hole thing outside our front gate that they took the fibre from when they came to install.
 
blunt said:
My question is: It says they need access to my property to install, I assume they will just put a box on the exterior of the property somewhere - as I'm not actually signing up with OS?
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Openserve use their existing telephone poles to install aerial fibre. The need access to your back yard to that telephone pole. You do know openserve is telkom, so that's what I mean by their poles.
 
pinball wizard said:
Openserve use their existing telephone poles to install aerial fibre. The need access to your back yard to that telephone pole. You do know openserve is telkom, so that's what I mean by their poles.
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Yes am aware that OS=Telkom, just wondered if they just gonna do something on the pole or put a little box somewhere on the property as well.
 
is the openserve option better than the trenched version from Vumutel?
 
is vumutel a more reliable platform ?
i know the recent issues i had with my landline it took 5 days and 4 visits from telkom to sort out .
dont really want that from openserve
 
maqsmaqs said:
is vumutel a more reliable platform ?
i know the recent issues i had with my landline it took 5 days and 4 visits from telkom to sort out .
dont really want that from openserve
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The only benefit to Openserve is the seamless ability to switch between multiple ISP accounts like you can with adsl. It comes at a price though. All ISP's are more expensive for the same or lower line speed on Openserve than they are on Vuma or us.

Given the choice I would go Vuma over Openserve.
 
pinball wizard said:
The only benefit to Openserve is the seamless ability to switch between multiple ISP accounts like you can with adsl. It comes at a price though. All ISP's are more expensive for the same or lower line speed on Openserve than they are on Vuma or us.

Given the choice I would go Vuma over Openserve.
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And which company is "us" exactly?
 
Polymathic said:
And which company is "us" exactly?
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SADV


pinball wizard said:
The only benefit to Openserve is the seamless ability to switch between multiple ISP accounts like you can with adsl. It comes at a price though. All ISP's are more expensive for the same or lower line speed on Openserve than they are on Vuma or us.

Given the choice I would go Vuma over Openserve.
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Openserve is very reliable. GPON but not oversold at all and zero packetloss. I've seen people on Vumatel complain non stop about poor international speeds aka packet loss so there is that. Obviously not everyone on Vumatel gets packet loss and yes Vumatel has way better pricing.
 
cavedog said:
SADV




Openserve is very reliable. GPON but not oversold at all and zero packetloss. I've seen people on Vumatel complain non stop about poor international speeds aka packet loss so there is that. Obviously not everyone on Vumatel gets packet loss and yes Vumatel has way better pricing.
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Seems like OS is one of the most expensive. MTN is up there but I've had almost no problems in the 2 years I've had fibre with them, don't go down with load shedding, etc

Frogfoot are really well priced in comparison but them and vuma and octotel seem to have a ton of complaints on these forums.. guess newbies are showing their lack of experience in infrastructure management and probably more so budget.

Hopefully for their clients in the long term things will improve
 
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Apologies if thread necro.

OS is rolling out aerial here, but I just saw contractors with huawei safety vests working for OS digging on the pavement by each second house laying these huge orange cables. Doesnt make sense to me since those houses have telephone poles, some with the black boxes installed already in the road.

What's the purpose of those cables if there are telkom poles?
 
JonOpollo said:
Apologies if thread necro.

OS is rolling out aerial here, but I just saw contractors with huawei safety vests working for OS digging on the pavement by each second house laying these huge orange cables. Doesnt make sense to me since those houses have telephone poles, some with the black boxes installed already in the road.

What's the purpose of those cables if there are telkom poles?
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Could be backhaul, also sometimes they won't rather use the old infrastructure.
 
PBCool said:
Could be backhaul, also sometimes they won't rather use the old infrastructure.
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Ah they did the black box on the telephone poles by us (same area) start of the month, area was in pre-order phase June. Neighbour next door refused access to span the cable across to the other pole and they left that at that. Guys running the cables said we should be live by the end of this month but things are looking...eish. Seems like its just her house that needs cabling in our road. Any idea how long these things take I am just excited to get a decent upload speed/latency since its still WFH for me :/


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I currently have openserve doing the same in my area ( South Hills ). The rollout of the fibre to these poles are a bit slow. I guess they have issues with residents not providing access to the properties. I feel it is rather selfish cause there are residents that want to move over to fibre. The area is covered by Rain 5G but as soon as the power goes out your 5G drops due to the towers not having battery backup. I did speak to some of the contractors rolling out the Fibre Infrastructure and i was advised it would take 2 months. I do believe it will be longer than that due to the obstacles some residents are posing.
 
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Scorpion101 said:
I currently have openserve doing the same in my area ( South Hills ). The rollout of the fibre to these poles are a bit slow. I guess they have issues with residents not providing access to the properties. I feel it is rather selfish cause there are residents that want to move over to fibre. The area is covered by Rain 5G but as soon as the power goes out your 5G drops due to the towers not having battery backup. I did speak to some of the contractors rolling out the Fibre Infrastructure and i was advised it would take 2 months. I do believe it will be longer than that due to the obstacles some residents are posing.
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We had the same issue in our area when Openserve rolled out fibre. Lots of ignorant residents refusing to give access to their properties. What they didn't realise is that Openserve wasn't really asking them, they were telling them that they were going to access their properties whether they like it or not. In the end Huawei (the contractors) just accessed the necessary properties without the owner's permission, as the law allows them.
 
Yeah its about to be month two since rollout started, the contractors that layed cable on the pavement advised me that it will be another 1 month still till the area is live and that they wont be making certain streets live before others.
 
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Scorpion101 said:
I currently have openserve doing the same in my area ( South Hills ). The rollout of the fibre to these poles are a bit slow. I guess they have issues with residents not providing access to the properties. I feel it is rather selfish cause there are residents that want to move over to fibre. The area is covered by Rain 5G but as soon as the power goes out your 5G drops due to the towers not having battery backup. I did speak to some of the contractors rolling out the Fibre Infrastructure and i was advised it would take 2 months. I do believe it will be longer than that due to the obstacles some residents are posing.
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Openserve don't need their permission. The poles are always in the municipal servitude area.
 
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