The Parkhurst Residents and Business Owners Association (PRABOA) says it has nominated Vumatel as its preferred provider to supply fibre to the area.<\/p>\n
Last month, residents of Parkhurst put out a request for proposal for Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) vendors to install a fibre network in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
The adjudication committee reviewed 16 proposals from operators such as MTN, Vodacom, Telkom, Dark Fibre Africa, SA Digital Villages, ATEC, Liquid Telecoms, ClearlineIS, Posix and Cool Ideas.<\/p>\n
Security providers Cortac and CSS also submitted proposals.<\/p>\n
Vumatel\u2019s proposal included:<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir 4Mbps free option also appealed to us in order to get the community on board. Getting about 20GB of bandwidth on a 4Mbps fibre line for perhaps R150 per month is a no-brainer for the majority of residents,\u201d said Ryan Hawthorne, PRABOA\u2019s technical advisor.<\/p>\n
The fibre rollout is expected to take between 6-12 months. An information-sharing session with the community will take place within the next two weeks, Hawthorne said.<\/p>\n
A new entrant to the FTTH market, Vumatel is headed up by Niel Schoeman a founder of Conduct Telecommunications SA, which has built over 40 last-mile fibre solutions for business precincts in South Africa and was recently sold to Dark Fibre Africa.<\/p>\n
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