New fibre to reach remote areas

At the Great Rift Valley ICT summit taking place in Dar es Salaam next week, Gilat Satcom will unveil a raft of new fibre routes in coastal and landlocked Africa. These routes are already providing companies with fast and reliable broadband connectivity at competitive...

VoIP shifts into top gear as fibre blooms

A very exciting development currently playing out in the voice over IP (VoIP) arena is the sudden growth in fibre business premises, says Rob Lith, director of Connection Telecom.  Having fibre-ready offices makes a company’s transition to VoIP infinitely easier, as...

Dark fibre rolls out in Route 21

Route 21 Corporate Park, the R2-billion office park development near Irene, became the first office park to install an open-access dark fibre network three years ago. It has now moved into phase two, which includes the delivery of fibre to every building in the office...

Free fibre infrastructure for landlords

Local open-access fibre infrastructure provider, Conduct Telecommunications, will at no cost to the landlord connect business premises to the country’s backbone fibre infrastructure. The company plans to expand its current footprint to 100 business precincts across...

XDSL launches broadband fibre offering

XDSL, a local Internet service Provider (ISP), has announced the immediate availability of South Africa’s first super fast broadband fibre offering. With speeds of 25Mbps, 50Mbps and 100Mbps available, more than 10Mbps faster than existing options, XDSL is meeting...