Re: [obsnw] Fibre solution for Observatory
Thank you so much for your detailed responses Mark. Hugely appreciated. The obvious advantage of overhead fibre is that it will be much faster (and cheaper) to implement than trenching. However, the capacity limitation of the PON network you mention is concerning. But I suppose as long as they can offer up to 100Mb speeds then 99.9% of users will be satisfied. While I would prefer a provider like Octotel to put in a full fibre pair to every house I doubt that would happen within the next year or two. I see University/Walmer Estate is on their 'planned' schedule, but what I've learned after watching all the fibre providers coverage maps over the years is that 'planned' takes ages, and we're not even on 'planned'. Are you sceptical of their being able to offer 100Mb on this PON network? I see a number of users mention LTE-A as a solution but the current range of products on this technology have data limits that are too far too restrictive. My household often hits 200GB in a month and this would be very expensive on LTE-A. That is before we start talking about how the latency problems on LTE limits what we are able to with it. So I’m afraid it’s either ADSL or Fibre for us. We’re now on 28% of the target reached! Let’s try keep the momentum going! -- -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 -- EMERGENCIES: 10111 -- ONW email: o...@obs.org.za WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch -- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [obsnw] Re: Fibre solution for Observatory
Yes I spoke to Mweb about that. The reason you got that email is because Openserve have one small part of Obs on their 'planned' coverage. It only appears to cover Strubens road from Durban road to just past Willow road (see http://www.openserve.co.za/open/fibre/). This is the only part of obs that is in the 'planned' Openserve schedule and it's been there for more than a year with nothing happening. Mweb's marketing system only 'sees' suburbs. Not the actual streets and addresses. So the sms went out to everyone in obs for which they have marketing contact details. -- -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 -- EMERGENCIES: 10111 -- ONW email: o...@obs.org.za WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch -- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[obsnw] Re: Fibre solution for Observatory
Cybersmart (Lightspeed) will never roll out fibre to free-standing houses in Obs. They only do apartment blocks and business fibre. They say they do (and put the whole of Cape Town in their coverage map as 'available') which leads us to waste plenty of our time trying to get people to sign up. Meanwhile, when you look at their actual active connections they have almost no free-standing house installations anywhere. The reason this initiative of Vumatel is different is that we have been allocated an actual target to reach on their system. This is a new development. Previously, you could 'show your interest' and it would do nothing. Also, Vumatel marketers have started putting fliers in everyone's postboxes in Obs. Thanks for signing up:-) Lets make this happen! On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 14:34:23 UTC+2, Piers wrote: > > Hi Colin > Thanks, we've also been looking but I got a similar response from > Cybersmart last year – they even sent a me a brochure to hand out to > neighbours to convince them to sign-up too. > Just signed onto Vumatel, now at 22% with 612 more applications needed. > Piers > > On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 11:27:59 AM UTC+2, Colin Theobald wrote: >> >> I've been trying to get a fibre provider interest in our area for nearly >> five years. Finally we seem to have some traction with Vumatel. >> They have begun a proper feasibility study for our area, but 30% of the >> households need to show interest. >> The other option would be Openserve (Telkom) but they still don't have >> most of Observatory on their 'planned' schedule (only the south side up to >> the end of Strubens road). >> Plus most packages from Openserve are around 30% more expensive than >> Vumatel. >> Please can I ask everyone to show their interest by filling out an >> extremely short (2 mins max) non-binding survey at >> https://vumatel.co.za/show-interest >> We have hit 15% of our target in 24 hours. >> However there are other suburbs being studied so we need to hit our >> target before them to be in front of the queue. >> This has the potential to save most residents a lot of money. You won't >> need any form of Telkom service and a lot of people can ditch their DSTV >> subscriptions as well. >> Please, please, please show your interest on their website. >> Thank you. >> Colin >> >> >> -- -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 -- EMERGENCIES: 10111 -- ONW email: o...@obs.org.za WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch -- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[obsnw] Fibre solution for Observatory
I've been trying to get a fibre provider interest in our area for nearly five years. Finally we seem to have some traction with Vumatel. They have begun a proper feasibility study for our area, but 30% of the households need to show interest. The other option would be Openserve (Telkom) but they still don't have most of Observatory on their 'planned' schedule (only the south side up to the end of Strubens road). Plus most packages from Openserve are around 30% more expensive than Vumatel. Please can I ask everyone to show their interest by filling out an extremely short (2 mins max) non-binding survey at https://vumatel.co.za/show-interest We have hit 15% of our target in 24 hours. However there are other suburbs being studied so we need to hit our target before them to be in front of the queue. This has the potential to save most residents a lot of money. You won't need any form of Telkom service and a lot of people can ditch their DSTV subscriptions as well. Please, please, please show your interest on their website. Thank you. Colin -- -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 -- EMERGENCIES: 10111 -- ONW email: o...@obs.org.za WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch -- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
