{"id":99106,"date":"2015-09-22T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=99106"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:34:06","slug":"telkom-fibre-heading-to-bryanston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/99106\/telkom-fibre-heading-to-bryanston\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom announces 12,000 fibre connections in single Joburg suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced that more than 12,000 Bryanston homes will have access to fibre technology by March 2016, making it the largest fibre open-access suburb to date. The fibre roll-out has already started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are rolling out fibre to all of Bryanston as part of our aggressive push to provide one million homes with fibre access by 2018,\u201d said Telkom MD of Wholesale and Networks Alphonzo Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBryanston will be a model for the country when it comes to connecting entire suburbs to fibre broadband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telkom recently announced that its open-access fibre broadband network would<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/138640-telkoms-new-100mbps-fibre-to-the-home-areas-revealed.html\"><strong>include more than 25 additional areas, suburbs, and communities by the end of September 2015<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre will soon be available in multiple additional suburbs of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, and Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telkom.co.za\/coverage\/ftth\/\" target=\"_blank\">coverage map<\/a><\/strong> lets you to check whether its fibre services are available for your area.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telkom.co.za\/coverage\/\">coverage map<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0updated as Telkom expands its fibre network.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom FTTH<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/97705\/telkom-announces-open-access-trial-at-200-exchanges\/\">Telkom\u2019s hugely ambitious fibre plans for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to More Joburg neighbourhoods to get high speed fibre\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/97185\/more-joburg-neighbourhoods-to-get-high-speed-fibre\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More Joburg neighbourhoods to get high speed fibre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom feeling pressure from fibre competitors\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/94553\/telkom-feeling-pressure-from-fibre-competitors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom feeling pressure from fibre competitors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/97705\/telkom-announces-open-access-trial-at-200-exchanges\/\">Telkom announces open access trial at 200 exchanges<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced what it calls the largest open-access FTTH deployment to a suburb in South Africa to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":74072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1622,65],"class_list":["post-99106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-fibre","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99106","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=99106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99110,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99106\/revisions\/99110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}