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More FTTH suburbs on cards

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 14 May 2015
Saxonwold and Parkwood join Parkhurst, Greenside, Parktown North, Killarney and Riviera in being some of the first to get FTTH.
Saxonwold and Parkwood join Parkhurst, Greenside, Parktown North, Killarney and Riviera in being some of the first to get FTTH.

Telecoms start-up Vumatel is expanding its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) footprint, with the Johannesburg suburbs of Saxonwold and Parkwood next in line to become "Vuma fibrehoods".

The Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA) has endorsed Vumatel as the preferred supplier to install an FTTH network in the area. Infrastructure work will commence in the third quarter of the year, with the first homes and businesses scheduled to be connected by September.

The two suburbs join Parkhurst, Greenside, Parktown North, Killarney and Riviera in being among some of the first households to be connected to a fibre network. Vuma started its FTTH rollout when it was endorsed by the residents of Parkhurst in July last year.

Vumatel FTTH is based on an open access system. The company provides fibre connectivity to the home, with a variety of Internet service providers supplying access to the Internet.

Meanwhile, Greenside and Parktown North have gone live with FTTH. The first homes in both Greenside and Parktown North were connected at the end of April and join Parkhurst on the Vumatel fibre network six weeks after construction in these suburbs began.

Towards the end of last year, Vumatel said it had identified a 42 suburbs (in addition to Parkhurst) in Johannesburg and Cape Town where FTTH projects would be undertaken.

At the time, the company said it had decided to start deployment initially in certain parts of Johannesburg and Cape Town, with "more to follow".

Vumatel identified the following Johannesburg suburbs for fibre deployment:

Atholl, Beverley, Blairgowrie, Douglasdale, Emmarentia, Forest Town, Fourways, Gallo Manor, Greenside, Houghton Estate, Hurlingham and Hurlingham Manor, Hyde Park, Illovo, Inanda and Chislehurston, Killarney and Riviera, Linden, Lonehill, Melrose and Birdhaven, Melville, Parkhurst, Parkmore, Parktown, Parktown North, Parkwood, Pine Slopes, River Club, Sandhurst, Saxonwold, Upper Houghton, Victory Park and Westcliff.

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