Estate Living Magazine Connection - Issue 43 July 2019 | Page 55

L I V E S M A R T The Openserve Fibre Network is the largest fibre footprint in South Africa. In 2015, as the already well-established local leader in the Fibre to the Curb space, Openserve entered the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) market. Its FTTH footprint has steadily grown since, and is ever expanding as this access medium enjoys prominence in the Operator’s business strategy. Openserve Fibre Broadband (OFB), the Infrastructure Provider’s connectivity product, is provisioned on an open access basis to more than a hundred FTTH retailers, including the retail arm of the Telkom Group. The current maximum speed offered is 200Mbps, but the technology deployed is future-proof and will enable higher speed offerings when the market demand changes. Openserve lays claim to the highest number of premises passed with fibre as well as the Infrastructure Provider that has connected the most Fibre to the Home customers in South Africa. The open access model allows consumers freedom of choice when deciding on a preferred Internet Service Provider. The extensive and growing FTTH coverage is deployed in all nine of South Africa’s provinces. All major metros and selected areas in smaller cities and towns are covered. Openserve strategically rolls out its fibre footprint with the intent to avail FTTH connectivity to more South African homes by covering larger areas with fibre. Find out if your home, suburb or complex is covered by visiting http:// openserve.co.za/open/fibre. Openserve makes use of state of the art technology that is supported by highly trained and equipped technicians augmented by original equipment manufacturers and service providers in all major and minor centres. Specialist knowledge is available across the organisation at all levels. The network is monitored by a state of the art National Network Operation Centre with full fault detection capability, for better and quicker assurance. Technicians are seamlessly dispatched to customers or to network failures via the latest dispatch technology. *2017&2018 MyBroadband. E Openserve invites you to open your world to a more connected life. When choosing fibre, choose SA’s Best Fixed Broadband Provider for two years running*. Choose Openserve. Openserve develops and wholesales products that are used by resellers to build innovative products for the consumer market. Continuous review of speeds and pricing is the mechanism used to stimulate competition in the sector, lower the barrier of entry to higher speed broadband offerings and to stimulate growth of the various Licensed Operators it provisions for. Openserve partners with South Africa’s leading ISPs that work hard to ensure that you can access a superior fibre connection at an affordable price.