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South Africa - Fixed-line Market and Infrastructure - Overview and Statistics
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd, March 2012, Pages: 29
South Africa’s second national operator Neotel is gaining market share in competition with fixed-line incumbent, Telkom SA. It is using wireless technologies such as CDMA and WiMAX to provide alternatives to the incumbent’s copper access network. Having bought and leased national fibre infrastructure from parastatals Transtel and Eskom and building its own fibre backbone network in parallel, Neotel is also operating as a provider of wholesale national and international connectivity to the business sector.
In addition, the government has created Broadband InfraCo, a national infrastructure company to provide cheap backbone network capacity to service providers, and the major mobile network operators, Vodacom and MTN, are moving into the fixed-line and national fibre sector under a converged, service-neutral licensing regime. Despite the significantly increased competition between different service providers, many municipalities in South Africa, including the country’s largest cities, are implementing their own fibre and wireless broadband networks.
All of the major players are involved in the various international submarine fibre optic cables that have reached the country in the past three years. The arrival of Seacom as the second international cable in 2009 has brought down the cost of international bandwidth dramatically. Previously, Telkom had been monopolising access to the only major cable serving the country, SAT-3/WASC/SAFE. A third international cable, EASSy landed in 2010, followed by ACE and WACS in late 2011.
Companies covered in this report:
Telkom SA, Neotel, Vodacom, MTN, Broadband InfraCo, Transtel, Eskom, SITA, Sentech, Amobia, Dark Fibre Africa, Internet Solutions.
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