fibre network in towns across the Western Cape, with over 120km of cable trenched across Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Paarl and Wellington.
Ermano Quartero, managing executive of products and marketing at Vodacom Business, explains that the fibre-optic cabling enables the rapid transfer of large amounts of data, and is ideal for services that require smooth data provisioning, such as video conferencing.
Quartero says the current network covers 23km of cable in Stellenbosch, 48km of cable in Somerset West, and 49km in Paarl and Wellington.
There are also 38km of optic spurs in Stellenbosch, Paarl and Somerset West, he notes.
Parent company Vodacom has been investing heavily in its network infrastructure, reporting R4.573 billion in network expenditure, according to the company's last year-end financial results.
Over the past six months, Vodacom laid 831km of fibre and has to date encircled 11 metro rings with optical technology across the country.
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