150 000 homes to get Vodacom fibre150 000 homes to get Vodacom fibre
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has revealed the company’s three-year targets for delivering high-speed fibre broadband to businesses and residential consumers.
/www.techcentral.co.za/tag/shameel-joosub" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(205, 23, 19); text-decoration: none;" rel="noindex nofollow" target="_blank">Shameel Joosub, has told TechCentral.
/www.techcentral.co.za/tag/vodacom" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(205, 23, 19); text-decoration: none;" rel="noindex nofollow" target="_blank">Vodacom has taken a cautious approach so far to building fibre access networks, but plans to ramp up its investment from next year, when it has budgeted to spend between R400m and R500m on the project.
/www.techcentral.co.za/tag/neotel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(205, 23, 19); text-decoration: none;" rel="noindex nofollow" target="_blank">Neotel — if it’s allowed by regulators to proceed — will give the company a big leg-up as it expands its fixed-line offerings. He says it will allow Vodacom to build fibre access networks much quicker. The acquisition is, however, likely to encounter stiff opposition from some of its rivals.
/www.techcentral.co.za/tag/mtn" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(205, 23, 19); text-decoration: none;" rel="noindex nofollow" target="_blank">MTN into the space will present the first large and direct challenge to Telkom’s last remaining area of monopoly control — fixed lines into homes and small businesses.
/www.techcentral.co.za/tag/vumatel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(205, 23, 19); text-decoration: none;" rel="noindex nofollow" target="_blank">Vumatel is also deploying home fibre, starting with a project to wire up the Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst.
Dark Fibre Africa, which has traditionally played in the metropolitan and national fibre backhaul markets, is also getting in on the action, having won a contract last week from Parkview residents to build a home fibre network in the leafy Johannesburg suburb. —
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