Vodacom FTTH Officially launched (Finally)

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I've been working with the vodacom guys to get fibre into our estate since march this year. Build plans for all the estates have been submitted by build contractors to vodacom this week

http://www.vodacom.co.za/fibre

We should be live within 4-6 weeks
 
zeely said:
I've been working with the vodacom guys to get fibre into our estate since march this year. Build plans for all the estates have been submitted by build contractors to vodacom this week

http://www.vodacom.co.za/fibre

We should be live within 4-6 weeks
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Thanks for the information. I'll add this to the Lynnwood Fibre Initiative's list of potential fibre providers.

Do they only supply to estates or do they also supply to suburbs?

Which estate are you referring to?
 
I'm in High Riding Country estate, but for their launch there's quite a few estates they're rolling out to in western cape. They do have an estate search function, so first check and see if you're on their list
 
Pricing seems to high.

Way above Telkom and Vumatel pricing.
 
So.... No actual Vodacom sites up and running in the country as of yet?

And, if you could see Zeely's Estate, you'd know that the pricing is fantastic. I got quotes for as much as 2mil for civils & fibre install to their 100 units. No electronics, no backhaul, just getting the fibre in trenches.
 
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dotVIBE said:
So.... No actual Vodacom sites up and running in the country as of yet?

And, if you could see Zeely's Estate, you'd know that the pricing is fantastic. I got quotes for as much as 2mil for civils & fibre install to their 100 units. No electronics, no backhaul, just getting the fibre in trenches.
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Service cost makes up for that with exorbitant prices.
 
Not on a maximum uptake of a 100 units it doesn't. Maybe if you had to sign a 5 year contract. Also, their density is super low. even lower than most of constantia. And no backhaul whithin 10km.

Hey, i'm hardly pro VC. But in this instance it was the right deal for those guys. I did the math.
 
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Not on a maximum uptake of a 100 units it doesn't. Maybe if you had to sign a 5 year contract. Also, their density is super low. even lower than most of constantia. And no backhaul whithin 10km.

Hey, i'm hardly pro VC. But in this instance it was the right deal for those guys. I did the math.
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TBH Telkom has a more attractive FTTH model than Vodacom... says a lot :sick::D
 
jackshiels said:
TBH Telkom has a more attractive FTTH model than Vodacom... says a lot :sick::D
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now if only we could actually GET telkom FTTH.

telkom isnt interested in bringing FTTH to us either because we're too far out of the way and low density. There's 87 units in the estate, each one is around 10 000m2 plot. So you can imagine how big the estate is.

Also, we're right at the top of sir Lowrys Pass, just below the hairpin bend on the N2. We're far out of anyone's way

Our neighbouring estate (Wedderwil) rolled their own fibre (and cameras) in their estate and it cost them 20 mil. They raised a special levy of R200k once off per plot

So for R200 a month more than fibre providers in city bowl, I dont think its a bad deal
 
zeely said:
Our neighbouring estate (Wedderwil) rolled their own fibre (and cameras) in their estate and it cost them 20 mil. They raised a special levy of R200k once off per plot
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That is what I call the brute force method. Holymoly!
 
zeely said:
now if only we could actually GET telkom FTTH.

telkom isnt interested in bringing FTTH to us either because we're too far out of the way and low density. There's 87 units in the estate, each one is around 10 000m2 plot. So you can imagine how big the estate is.

Also, we're right at the top of sir Lowrys Pass, just below the hairpin bend on the N2. We're far out of anyone's way

Our neighbouring estate (Wedderwil) rolled their own fibre (and cameras) in their estate and it cost them 20 mil. They raised a special levy of R200k once off per plot

So for R200 a month more than fibre providers in city bowl, I dont think its a bad deal
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Have you spoken with Hannes at Frogfoot? I was talking with him about an estate that sounds curiously similar to yours... maybe it's the same thing. They might be a good option.
 
Nixul said:
Vodacom is also going to be open access.
http://www.techcentral.co.za/vodacom-sets-out-aggressive-ftth-plans/59589/
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Vodacom will retain ownership of both the fibre and all the equipment in their roll-outs. They claim that they will revert to open access after the end of the 24 month contract period, but no-where do they state what there rental fees to competing ISP's will be. I'd take that "open access" claim with a large grain of salt.

The guys selling the the Vodacom FTTH to the estates also claim that they can distribute a DSTV signal over the network, via IPTV to a Explora Decoder. This is just an outright lie. Not sure how they think they will get away with this. But i think Telkom has been guilty of doing this for a few estates as well.
 
dotVIBE said:
Vodacom will retain ownership of both the fibre and all the equipment in their roll-outs. They claim that they will revert to open access after the end of the 24 month contract period, but no-where do they state what there rental fees to competing ISP's will be. I'd take that "open access" claim with a large grain of salt.

The guys selling the the Vodacom FTTH to the estates also claim that they can distribute a DSTV signal over the network, via IPTV to a Explora Decoder. This is just an outright lie. Not sure how they think they will get away with this. But i think Telkom has been guilty of doing this for a few estates as well.
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You can send TV signal over FTTH.
 
Vodacom is available for the estate I live in and installs are planned for nov.

They don't have uncapped in my estate yet for some reason, but we are waiting for it.Here is the uncapped pricing for another estate http://www.vodacom.co.za/vodacom/terms/fibre/vodacom-fibre-mount-edgecombe
I won't mind paying those prices for uncapped.

They are going to provide us with the open access ISP's once everything has been confirmed. Last time I info we received is that there is going to be 15 ISP's to choose from. 15 is most likely not the case, but only time will tell.
 
jackshiels said:
You can send TV signal over FTTH.
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Yes you can. But it needs to run a a different network. Essentially, you require two fibres to every unit. One for telecoms, and one for RFoG DSTV distribution. You also need an RFoG Head End on site. What Vodacom's marketing partners are advertising, is an IPTV signal distribution solution. Multichoice discontinued their IPTV solution for residential clients in 2014 already. And it never has worked on the Explora, nor are they currently working on a firmware for the Explora that supports this.
 
dotVIBE said:
Yes you can. But it needs to run a a different network. Essentially, you require two fibres to every unit. One for telecoms, and one for RFoG DSTV distribution. You also need an RFoG Head End on site. What Vodacom's marketing partners are advertising, is an IPTV signal distribution solution. Multichoice discontinued their IPTV solution for residential clients in 2014 already. And it never has worked on the Explora, nor are they currently working on a firmware for the Explora that supports this.
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Why do you require two fibre stands ? i have seen it done using one stand using different wavelengths
 
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