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<\/a>Baywest Mall \u2014\u00a0November 2014<\/p><\/div>\n
More on Vodacom fibre optics<\/h3>\n
Vodacom fibre-to-the-business pricing revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
Vodacom has won a contract to light the entire fibre optic backbone of the 320 hectare Baywest City development in Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
Vodacom signed with the developers of the R1.7 billion Baywest Mall in PE\u2019s western suburbs to provide high speed internet to Baywest Mall tenants and shoppers alike.<\/p>\n
The 87,500m\u00b2 mall is scheduled to open next year, in April.<\/p>\n
“Baywest is the first large scale \u201cgreen fields\u201d development in the country to incorporate a wholly functional fibre optic backbone from inception,” the developers said.<\/p>\n
A development spanning the next decade, Baywest City includes commercial and retail offerings, as well as residential nodes with a private school and hospital in a model similar to Cape Town\u2019s Century City development.<\/p>\n
Baywest MD Gavin Blows said:\u201cIt will be a smart city with fibre optics throughout, allowing for high speed internet access. The security and internet access will run off this fibre optic backbone.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fibre optic network also allows for free calls within the precinct, reduced call rates, easy cloud computing, and live gaming without any lag, among a host of other advantages,\u201d said Blows.<\/p>\n
With just over 1,600 workers currently working on the mall, Blows said tenant installations were on track to start from December.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are about 3.5km of shop fronts throughout the mall and about 35km worth of electrical cabling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n