South African ISPs rank the country's FNOs

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Best and worst fibre networks in South Africa ranked by ISPs

Octotel, Liquid Intelligent Intelligent Technologies, and MetroFibre are the major fibre network operators (FNOs) with the most positive perceptions among Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa.

This is according to an FNO perception survey conducted by the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (Ispa).
 
Vumatel became what they were trying to defeat. Vumatel is the new Telkom. How the turntables!

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How accurate is this?,... used Frogfoot for years because they hold the monopoly in my area, (Competition board busy staring the other way whistling out of tune) never been off line for more then an hours and am almost never offline to start off with.
 
Well, I dropped Octotel as they essentially dictate their pricing to the ISP's forcing all the prices up.
Their entry level is R849 in my area (75/75mbps)
Sure if you're a brand new client you can get a discount etc, though R849a month stings a little.
I'm using a wireless provider now R499 for 50mbps and that is perfect for me.
When the FNO's drop their forced prices and there are some more affordable packages on offer, perhaps I'll go back to fibre
 
justplain said:
Well, I dropped Octotel as they essentially dictate their pricing to the ISP's forcing all the prices up.
Their entry level is R849 in my area (75/75mbps)
Sure if you're a brand new client you can get a discount etc, though R849a month stings a little.
I'm using a wireless provider now R499 for 50mbps and that is perfect for me.
When the FNO's drop their forced prices and there are some more affordable packages on offer, perhaps I'll go back to fibre
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Some of us cannot just drop Octotel. They're the only FNO in the area
 
justplain said:
Well, I dropped Octotel as they essentially dictate their pricing to the ISP's forcing all the prices up.
Their entry level is R849 in my area (75/75mbps)
Sure if you're a brand new client you can get a discount etc, though R849a month stings a little.
I'm using a wireless provider now R499 for 50mbps and that is perfect for me.
When the FNO's drop their forced prices and there are some more affordable packages on offer, perhaps I'll go back to fibre
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Bad Ballie said:
How accurate is this?,... used Frogfoot for years because they hold the monopoly in my area, (Competition board busy staring the other way whistling out of tune) never been off line for more then an hours and am almost never offline to start off with.
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All depends on where you are, Octotel was terrible for years in Sea Point and Blouberg, but improved in one, then the other.

Frogfoot is good on Atlantic seaboard AFAIK, but bad in Fishhoek (they used a radio backhaul link for a while, unsure if it's still like that), and PE (required that all traffic routed via CT). FF's other issue was using a ring topology whereby any issue anywhere in Cape Town affected everyone, unsure if fixed as this was a few years ago, and they had some bad switches which they were migrating off of (could be done by now).
 
Bad Ballie said:
How accurate is this?,... used Frogfoot for years because they hold the monopoly in my area, (Competition board busy staring the other way whistling out of tune) never been off line for more then an hours and am almost never offline to start off with.
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It's accurate in so far as it's ISPs experience.

PaulGherkin said:
Some of us cannot just drop Octotel. They're the only FNO in the area
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Most areas have just one fibre operator but more than one provider. See that he dropped Octotel but uses a wireless provider.
 
Johnatan56 said:
All depends on where you are, Octotel was terrible for years in Sea Point and Blouberg, but improved in one, then the other.

Frogfoot is good on Atlantic seaboard AFAIK, but bad in Fishhoek (they used a radio backhaul link for a while, unsure if it's still like that), and PE (required that all traffic routed via CT). FF's other issue was using a ring topology whereby any issue anywhere in Cape Town affected everyone, unsure if fixed as this was a few years ago, and they had some bad switches which they were migrating off of (could be done by now).
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Octotel hasn't been bad. In recent months though the issues are more and more proving to be squarely with Vox Telecom.
The recent issue that had me losing my schitt, was Vox. Because when I used a VPN it went away, and also Vox's own shitty website wasn't loading.

And FYI, Vox deleted all evidence of my complaint. Just like that
For that I am taking them to the ISPA
 
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