Neotel: Fibre everywhere

South Africa is seeing a mass rollout of fibre

Telkom’s monopoly in the fixed line market has come to an end and many telecoms players are investing in their own fibre networks to compete against the incumbent.

The new Individual ECNS licenses equals the playing field in terms of rights to roll out a network, and a fibre backbone is a much needed asset to be able to compete with a well entrenched telecoms provider like Telkom.