Oct 15, 2026
Connectivity in today’s age of intelligence may increasingly be invisible to the user, but it is indispensable to the experience. Dr. Sunil Piyarlall, executive for network architecture and modelling at Openserve The AI and cloud services businesses increasingly rely...
Oct 5, 2026
South Africa still has several million homes that remain unserved by fibre or other high-speed fixed access connectivity services. Sandile Mkhwanazi, head of community relations at Frogfoot Rise, on why the economics of township fibre deployment change when...
Oct 2, 2026
Broadband connectivity has become a foundation of Africa’s digital economy. But as the continent enters its next phase of digital development, the question is no longer simply how to connect more people. It is how to provide connectivity that is affordable, abundant,...
Sep 10, 2026
The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so that six of South Africa’s largest network operators can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure rollout. By Paul Colmer, executive member of the...
Sep 10, 2026
The South African fibre landscape is currently dominated by noise, from the arrival of LEO satellites to infrastructure operators launching their own retail ISPs. Trevor van Zyl, CEO of Octotel, says the focus must shift from simply laying cable to solving complex,...
Sep 2, 2026
South Africa has spent years treating fibre as the broadband finish line and wireless as a temporary arrangement until the trench reaches the gate. That hierarchy is now out of date, writes Paul Colmer, executive member of the Wireless Access Providers’...
