Telkom reveals new 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home coverage areas
Telkom has on Tuesday announced that its open access fibre broadband network would include more than 25 additional areas, suburbs and communities by the end of September 2015.
The telco boasts the largest open access fibre network in the country, available in multiple additional suburbs of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth.
Earlier this month, CEO Sipho Maseko said that Telkom fibre would be accessible to one million homes by March 2018, with half a million homes to have access by the end of 2016.
Telkom’s fibre to the home network includes 38,000 homes connected since launch.
Fibre to the home currently allows for download speeds of up to 100Mbps, allowing customers to download a standard definition 4.7GB video in under seven minutes.
Telkom noted that fibre optic cables transmit light, which does not allow for interference from electromagnetic noise such as radios, motors, power lines, electric fences or other cables. This ensures fibre remains a reliable and stable broadband product.
The telco operator has published a new list of suburbs and communities where FTTH work has started and is nearing completion.
Kimberley
- Hillcrest
Bloemfontein
- Rayton Ridge
- Universitas Ridge
Durban
- Assagay
- Ballito Industrial Park
- Bothas Hill
- Hillcrest, including Hildene, Langeford Estate and St Helier
- Westmead
- Mount Edgecombe Country Estate 2
Johannesburg
- Atholl
- Bryanston
- Dunkeld
- Forest Town
- Houghton
- River Club
- Craighall
- Hyde Park
Pretoria
- Hazelwood
- Menlo Park
- Route 21 Corporate Park (Irene)
- Waterkloof
Port Elizabeth
- Hallack Road
Cape Town
- Atlantic Beach Golf Estate
- D’urbanvale
- Oude Westhof (Welgemoed)
- Van Riebeeckshof (Welgemoed)
Telkom’s coverage map: http://www.telkom.co.za/coverage/ or http://www.telkom.co.za/coverage/ftth/
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