{"id":89746,"date":"2015-06-05T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=89746"},"modified":"2015-06-05T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:28:25","slug":"cape-town-gets-new-fibre-broadband-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/89746\/cape-town-gets-new-fibre-broadband-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town gets new fibre broadband player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New fibre-to-the-home operator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.octotel.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Octotel<\/a><\/strong> is planning to offer fibre broadband services in various Cape Town neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The company was started by a team of telecommunication industry veterans with a passion for \u201cbuilding exciting, fast-growing companies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They raised funding for the company from a group of private individuals based in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Octotel is rolling out its fibre network in partnership with the community and local Internet service providers, using an open-access business model.<\/p>\n<p>Octotel managing director Joe Botha told MyBroadband they\u2019ve already started to build their fibre network in Sea Point and Bantry Bay, and are looking to include surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Sea Point and Bantry Bay, Octotel is planning to cover Mouille Point, Three Anchor Bay, Green Point, and Fresnaye.<\/p>\n<p>Octotel is using DFA\u2019s infrastructure to carry traffic to the vendor-neutral Teraco data centre in Newslands, where it will connect to ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>Botha said they are in discussions with four well-known ISPs regarding offering services using the Octotel fibre network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne ISP has already confirmed they will offer services, with pricing starting at R499 per month for an uncapped 10Mbps connection,\u201d said Botha.<\/p>\n<p>Octotel is expected to announce a wide range of new offerings soon, including capped and uncapped Internet packages and voice services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on fibre-to-the-home in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/87222\/new-fibre-to-the-home-sites-identified-for-joburg\/\"><strong>New fibre-to-the-home sites identified for Joburg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/82715\/1gbps-durban-fibre-to-the-home-pricing-revealed\/\">1Gbps Durban fibre-to-the-home pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fibre-to-the-home operator Octotel is planning to offer fibre broadband services in various Cape Town neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":89856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,9966],"class_list":["post-89746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-octotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89746","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89754,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89746\/revisions\/89754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}