The Constantia FTTH Thread

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So Constantia will have both Telkom and LA fibre running through it?
 
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Chris.Geerdts said:
More of Link Africa's smooth sales talk. Activation is always 'imminent'. They can't blame the Teraco backhaul delays on the council.

At least you have the home install completed. Great news.

Would be cool to come and check it out when you are done. They came close enough to us but our road needs the council now.
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From what I understand Frogfoot are handling the backhaul (might be wrong here). Link Africa's job is meant to be done (I say "meant to be" because they were meant to be done by last Friday!).
 
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feo said:
So Constantia will have both Telkom and LA fibre running through it?
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Spoke to the logistics manager at LA this weekend past. Apparently Telkom will be running over LA fibre and offering services as such.

However, I have seen Telkom digging FTTH in Constantia and one of their managers told me this is so. I'm guessing LA are wrong and we are indeed getting two sets. Telkom were out scouting the road to my house a couple of months ago for FTTH (spoke to them myself).
 
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Spoke to the logistics manager at LA this weekend past. Apparently Telkom will be running over LA fibre and offering services as such.

However, I have seen Telkom digging FTTH in Constantia and one of their managers told me this is so. I'm guessing LA are wrong and we are indeed getting two sets. Telkom were out scouting the road to my house a couple of months ago for FTTH (spoke to them myself).
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Interesting that both Telkom and LA would be doing layer 1 in the same area. If that is so, then that's great news for competition and prices because between Telkom Fibre and LA there will be a load of options to choose from.
 
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feo said:
Interesting that both Telkom and LA would be doing layer 1 in the same area. If that is so, then that's great news for competition and prices because between Telkom Fibre and LA there will be a load of options to choose from.
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Not really as Telkom Fibre prices are standardized throughout the country, they won't change their pricing just because one area has competition, if all of the Telkom FTTH areas have competition then Telkom may consider lowering their prices.
 
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feo said:
Interesting that both Telkom and LA would be doing layer 1 in the same area. If that is so, then that's great news for competition and prices because between Telkom Fibre and LA there will be a load of options to choose from.
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The ISPs are supposed to lodge pricing with ICASA and Telkom (being a "significant market power") is particularly strict on lodging its national pricing, rather than having ad hoc, per suburb prices.

Telkom has fibre installed, coming down Brommersvlei and parts of Southern Cross. I haven't seen their deployment on Constantia Main but obviously their strategy includes extending VDSL from their exchange at the corner of Ladies Mile.

I spoke to one of the contractors and it seems as through the action will start early next year. It will be interesting to compare the % uptake between the two providers.
 
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Chris.Geerdts said:
The ISPs are supposed to lodge pricing with ICASA and Telkom (being a "significant market power") is particularly strict on lodging its national pricing, rather than having ad hoc, per suburb prices.

Telkom has fibre installed, coming down Brommersvlei and parts of Southern Cross. I haven't seen their deployment on Constantia Main but obviously their strategy includes extending VDSL from their exchange at the corner of Ladies Mile.

I spoke to one of the contractors and it seems as through the action will start early next year. It will be interesting to compare the % uptake between the two providers.
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How does pricing compare between, for example, a Vox package over Telkom FTTH vs Vox over Frogfoot in Constantia?
 
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feo said:
How does pricing compare between, for example, a Vox package over Telkom FTTH vs Vox over Frogfoot in Constantia?
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Vox over Frogfoot is significantly cheaper.

Vox 100Mb with 600GB data (Frogfoot): R1,099.00
Vox 100Mb with 500GB data (Telkom): R2234.00

Speaks for itself.
 
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Just got word today that the DFA link from Constantia Village goes live tomorrow. Should be looking at a connection very very soon after that is complete (maybe this weekend?).
 
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Why is the pricing so much more over Telkom FTTH do you think?

IPC costs?
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The Telkom Openserve prices were published somewhere (can't recall right now), then there's the IPC on top of that and the general desire by ISP to reduce their dependency on the main player
 
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I've been waiting for Telkom to install DSL services since November and nothing has changed. I'm at the point where i"m willing to pay 10k cash to someone get Fibre installed off Doordrift :( Don't know what other solutions I have.
 
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jackshiels said:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1658236669

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Speed is VERY consistent too! Got 42Mbps to New Zealand...
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It's truly depressing to see that Vox are already connecting clients to their network, yet they cannot even provide other service providers - who have been part of the project since before they came along and purchased Frogfoot - with a cabinet number in Teraco to run the interconnect to.
 
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It's truly depressing to see that Vox are already connecting clients to their network, yet they cannot even provide other service providers - who have been part of the project since before they came along and purchased Frogfoot - with a cabinet number in Teraco to run the interconnect to.
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Only reason is I am literally the first client to be connected in Constantia and I chose Vox. Vox only did the interconnect at Teraco on Christmas Eve because I pestered them!

Have you spoken to Hannes at Frogfoot? Vox aren't the people to go through...
 
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jackshiels said:
Have you spoken to Hannes at Frogfoot? Vox aren't the people to go through...
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We have regularly met with him since April 2015. Matter of fact, he'll be visiting us next week with the next person that our account has been assigned to.

It's very frustrating to have a stack of orders in each of the areas, not have any idea when any of them will be commissioned and stand by helplessly as the holding company of the fibre network rushes it's retail clients while the rest of us just get to sit and watch.
 
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I've signed up for Vox too - saw the fibre running close by but I don't expect to be connected any time soon
 
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