Cool Ideas is working on making gigabit fibre services \u201cusable and feasible”, cofounder Paul Butschi told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also building our own data centre and are busy with a few ideas which would tie into our connectivity solutions,\u201d said Butschi.<\/p>\n
Cool Ideas recently ranked as the top-rated ISP in MyBroadband\u2019s Q3 2017 Broadband Survey<\/strong><\/a>, and has been the top local provider in the Netflix ISP Speed Index<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n It focuses on fibre services and offers home and business fibre connectivity on a variety of infrastructure providers.<\/p>\n Andre Jooste and Paul Butschi founded Cool Ideas in 2011 after years of working in IT support.<\/p>\n \u201cWe both come from a support background, and both worked for many years in business support,\u201d said Butschi.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter a long enough time, Andre and I wanted to start making our own business decisions, and so formed Cool Ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n They are residents of Parkhurst and were involved with the Vumatel proposal<\/strong><\/a> to the Parkhurst Resident Association to offer fibre to the neighbourhood in 2014.<\/p>\n Since Vumatel\u2019s launch, the residential fibre infrastructure space has boomed – but Cool Ideas has no plans to compete in the infrastructure arena.<\/p>\n It does operate last-mile networks in places like 44 Stanley, Grenville Gardens, and The Refinery, but Butschi said these are limited and unique cases.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are often small, older complexes with very few units that no other provider would touch, but it\u2019s close to our fibre presence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n “We aren\u2019t planning on rolling out any more physical networks, there are already enough companies doing so.”<\/p>\n Butschi added that they bought a small Internet service provider in KwaZulu-Natal this year, and that they are not looking for a buyer.<\/p>\n \u201c[We] would always look to acquire other businesses if it made strategic or business sense.”<\/p>\n Cool Ideas is working on making gigabit fibre services \u201cusable and feasible”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":218744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28470],"tags":[44288,25307,35,28047],"class_list":["post-233413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","category-fibre","tag-andre-jooste","tag-cool-ideas","tag-headline","tag-paul-butschi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233585,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233413\/revisions\/233585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From IT support<\/h3>\n
Now read: Fibre crushing ADSL in South African rankings<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"