“Around 200 kilometres of fibre has already been rolled out,” Angus Hay, executive head of technology said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Durban route was about one third complete and the work on the Cape Town route would start soon.<\/p>\n
The network is a joint venture between Neotel, MTN and Vodacom.<\/p>\n
Neotel had added roughly 1000 km of fibre in the three main metros where it operated — Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban. It now had around 4000 km of fibre in the ground in these areas.<\/p>\n
Hay said the company had created more points of presence in these areas to serve its business customers.<\/p>\n
“In addition to that we have increased our point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave network dramatically, doubling the coverage area for this service.”<\/p>\n
Neotel has also created significant WiMax coverage.<\/p>\n
“From a consumer product offering perspective, coverage has increased by 70 percent.<\/p>\n
“We have been aggressively investing in our network to ensure that we become more widely available to our customers.<\/p>\n
“This, coupled with the international bandwidth we have available and the innovative products we bring to the market is setting the scene for what will be a very good 2010.”<\/p>\n