{"id":21215,"date":"2012-09-02T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=21215"},"modified":"2012-09-03T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:40:22","slug":"telkom-unveils-40mbps-broadband-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/21215\/telkom-unveils-40mbps-broadband-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom unveils 40Mbps broadband plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telkom<\/a>\u2019s head of wholesale and networks, Bashier Sallie<\/a>, announced at a press briefing today (2 September 2012) that they would be launching a high-speed broadband pilot project.<\/p>\n

Sallie said that the project would be focusing on FTTx<\/a> (replacing part of its copper infrastructure with optical fibre), and high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) services.<\/p>\n

Telkom first announced a project to replace its existing DSL infrastructure at telephone exchanges with multi-service access nodes (MSANs<\/a>) during March 2012.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the announcement, ZTE Mzansi<\/a> brought an interdict against Telkom, halting the project. Telkom was granted leave to appeal in May 2012, allowing the company to continue revamping its network.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the MSAN project has proceeded well, despite challenges which included the interdict, a deal with KT Corp to acquire Telkom shares falling through, and a fine of R449-million being issued by the Competition Tribunal.<\/p>\n

At the press event where it unveiled its MSAN project, Telkom\u2019s head of network infrastructure provisioning, Alphonzo Samuels<\/a>, explained that MSANs can be used to offer higher speed ADSL (ADSL 2+), very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL<\/a>), and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH<\/a>) services.<\/p>\n

Samuels said that they wanted to be ready to kick off the pilot project in July 2012, with technical testing running for a period of 3\u20136 months.<\/p>\n

Sallie conceded that they were a few months late in launching the pilot, later adding that the interdict brought by ZTE Mzansi was the primary reason for the delay.<\/p>\n

The trial would be running in the following areas, Sallie said:<\/p>\n