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 sector, lower the barrier of entry to higher
the intent to avail FTTH connectivity to more speed broadband offerings and to stimulate
South African homes by covering larger areas growth of the various Licensed Operators
with fibre. Find out if your home, suburb it provisions for. Openserve partners with
or complex is covered by visiting South Africa’s leading ISPs that work hard to
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ensure that you can access a superior fibre
openserve.co.za/open/fibre.
connection at an affordable price.
Openserve makes use of state of the art
technology that is supported by highly trained Openserve invites you to open your world to
and equipped technicians augmented by a more connected life. When choosing fibre,
original equipment manufacturers and service choose SA’s Best Fixed Broadband Provider
providers in all major and minor centres. for two years running*. Choose Openserve.
Specialist
knowledge
is
available
across
the organisation at all levels. The network
*2017&2018 MyBroadband.
is monitored by a state of the art National
Network Operation Centre with full fault
detection capability, for better and quicker
assurance.
dispatched
Technicians
to
are
customers
or
seamlessly
to
network
failures via the latest dispatch technology.
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
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