{"id":653544,"date":"2026-06-13T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=653544"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:58:00","slug":"major-south-african-fibre-network-on-hiring-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/653544-major-south-african-fibre-network-on-hiring-spree.html","title":{"rendered":"Major South African fibre network on hiring spree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South African township-focused fibre network operator Fibertime has posted 14 full-time job vacancies over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fibertime is a low-cost fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service, selling connections from R5 per day for a single device or R10 per day for five devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fibertime’s coverage grew substantially over the last two years. As of April 2026, it had connected 416,000 homes, nearly 41 times more than in May 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its network encompasses 48 areas across seven provinces. It is currently constructing new networks in another 22 areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of Fibertime’s open positions were area growth managers in six provinces. These positions require regular travel across township network areas, contractor sites, and operational locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fibertime said the growth manager’s purpose was to turn expansion plans into connected homes by driving build execution, maintaining high construction and safety standards, and managing contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They must also ensure township-aware and community-sensitive delivery, with seamless handover to the network operations division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This role plays a pivotal, hands-on leadership role in driving geographic expansion by ensuring the rapid, safe, and high-quality connection of homes within designated townships,” Fibertime said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth managers must be based in their assigned province. At the time of publication, positions were available in Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fibertime is also seeking two dual-province regional maintenance managers, one for Limpopo and Mpumalanga and another for the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These managers are tasked with ensuring maintenance teams and contractors protect network uptime, quickly resolve faults, and manage offline ONTs and degraded lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fibertime said the operational role focused on customer-impacting faults, contractor performance, incident control, preventative and corrective maintenance, and reliable network performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These managers report to the National Maintenance Officer, another position that is currently vacant. This person has an extensive list of responsibilities relating to the performance of Fibertime’s network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa’s new fibre war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The company is also seeking a new Head of Field Operations, preferably based in Stellenbosch, who will also need to travel frequently to Fibertime’s sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other positions include regional maintenance managers in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga, and a Traffic Manager based in Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These new employees will be needed to help Fibertime reach its goals of one million homes by the middle of 2027 and two million in 2028, backed by Finnfund, Refiber, and Onepath Investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finnfund initially invested \u20ac2 million (R40 million, at the time) in the firm in 2023, followed by another \u20ac2 million injection in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2025, the Competition Commission recommended that a proposed deal between Fibertime, Refiber, and Onepath Investments be approved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction would see Refiber and Onepath acquiring last-mile dark fibre networks that Fibertime still had to roll out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refiber’s directors are Andrew Brooking and Simon Fifield. Brooking is the founding director of Java Capital, a corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, and equity capital markets firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifield is the founder and CEO of Capensis Real Estate, as well as a director on the board of Redefine Properties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair are also directors at Onepath, alongside Jason van Wyk, who is Java Capital’s corporate finance executive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is facing off against a myriad of providers focused on the lower-income market, including Vuma Key and Net Nine Nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These companies are combining higher population densities in townshops and lower-income areas with cheaper aerial fibre rollout to keep product prices low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent update on LinkedIn, Fibertime said that its average user was consuming over 5GB of data per day, which it valued at R125. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has also been claimed that transitioning users from mobile to fibre Internet resulted in a 31-fold increase in data consumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to other low-cost fibre products, customers must buy access on a prepaid basis, with stores around the area available <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fibertime is offering over a dozen positions across seven provinces in South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":642180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28470],"tags":[99409,105857,75382,70575,91509,20153,99405,69345,101661,96647,99156,99155,99410,55732,79064],"class_list":["post-653544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-andrew-brooking","tag-capensis-real-estate","tag-cheapest-fibre","tag-cheapest-fibre-packages","tag-fibertime","tag-fibre-to-the-home-ftth","tag-finnfund","tag-home-fibre","tag-low-cost-fibre","tag-net-nine-nine","tag-onepath-investments","tag-refiber","tag-simon-fifield","tag-township-fibre","tag-vuma-key"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653544"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653691,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653544\/revisions\/653691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}