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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 http:// 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 75 INDUSTRY JOURNAL . . . openserve.co.za/open/fibre