Former Dimension Data director, Richard Came has acquired a 10% shareholding in Conduct Telecoms, and will take up the position of chairman on the Conduct board from 1 May 2013.<\/p>\n
Conduct Telecoms is a last-mile fibre-optic telecommunications operator which invests in open access fibre in the last-mile proactivley connecting commercial premises to dark fibre.<\/p>\n
Conduct provides dark fibre to ISP’s rather than serving end users directly. Service providers utilise its open-access network to supply between 2Mbit\/s and 1Gbit\/s connections to businesses.<\/p>\n
“There has been significant investment in both longhaul and metropolitan networks by the likes of [Dark Fibre Africa] and other operators to support the needs of the mobile operators,” Came said.<\/p>\n
“This has created a tremendous potential capacity for bandwidth, but the means for ordinary businesses and citizens to access this remains limited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Came noted that this is mainly due to the cost to access this infrastructure that has remained prohibitive.<\/p>\n
“Conduct is changing this. If we get it right, and it is a very real challenge for us still, Conduct will benefit not only the end user, but also the metro-networks as it drives utilisation of existing infrastructure,\u201d Came said.<\/p>\n
Conduct CEO Johan Pretorius said that the company is in talks with other investors and will be making announcements shortly.<\/p>\n
“[Came] will be instrumental in our efforts to fast track the roll-out of last-mile fibre optics to key precincts in high density business areas,\u201d Pretorius said.<\/p>\n
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