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