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
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
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
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
