{"id":187745,"date":"2017-07-25T08:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=187745"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:06:19","slug":"portal-maps-home-fibre-coverage-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/187745\/portal-maps-home-fibre-coverage-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal maps home fibre coverage in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent telco and fibre provider, OTEL Telecoms, has launched visual guide mapping the location of 250,000 square kilometres of fibre optic cable within South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibre2thehome.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">site<\/a> enables prospective high-speed broadband Internet customers to determine if their homes lie within one of the country\u2019s growing tally of fibrehoods.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100,000 homes are estimated to have access to high-speed broadband delivered by fibre optic underground cable, OTEL said.<\/p>\n<p>OTEL said it adopts a blended approach of building its own fibre network while simultaneously accessing the expanding networks of fibre players including OpenServe, Teralink, Vodacom, Sizwe Connect and others &#8211; all of which are shown on the portal.<\/p>\n<p>The fibre portal also indicates which specific estates and housing complexes already have access to fibre.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/182309\/cell-c-extends-home-fibre-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cell C extends home fibre footprint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent telco and fibre provider, OTEL Telecoms, has launched visual guide mapping the location of 250,000 square kilometres of fibre optic cable within South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":169681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187753,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187745\/revisions\/187753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}