The Northern Johannesburg suburbs have signed up for Vumatel's fibre-to-the-home rollout.?
The City of Johannesburg has taken over the R3.4 billion Johannesburg broadband network, and has appointed BWired as the entity that will run it.
The residents association, part of the Fibrehoods project, offers FTTH from R570 for 100GB per month.
The ICT industry criticises the president's SONA announcement that the state-owned telco would lead a district provincial broadband project.
There is a huge amount of unproductive, unnecessary duplication of effort among fibre network vendors, says the Internet Solutions division.
Telkom will be the lead agency in rolling out broadband to government entities in eight municipalities.
Verizon, SK Telecom and T-Mobile US executives observed Licence Assisted Access peak rate and fair-sharing demonstrations in Ericsson labs in Canada and Sweden.
The telecoms firm joins the queue of companies involved in fibre forays, with plans to deploy fibre services.
As speculation continues that government will ditch its telecoms investments, Vodafone emerges as the most likely buyer of the state's R27.8?billion Vodacom stake.
Vodacom Business has packaged its SME-focused broadband offerings under the?Broadband Connect?banner.
As opposition parties walked out in protest, the ANC voted to allow the City of Joburg to buy itself out of a broadband network deal.
City councillors are expected to clash with the mayoral committee tonight over the R1.2?billion buyout of the Johannesburg Broadband Network Project.