Fibre-to-the-home is gaining traction in South Africa, with new FTTH subscriptions exceeding new ADSL subscriptions.<\/p>\n
Greg Wright, Webafrica\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> product owner for hosting and connectivity, told MyBroadband that three-times more people currently sign up for FTTH than ADSL.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re seeing tremendously strong growth in the FTTH market \u2013 the only constraint currently is the underlying infrastructure player who can\u2019t install our customers fast enough,\u201d said Wright.<\/p>\n What is particularly impressive about new FTTH accounts outstripping ADSL accounts is the limited availability of fibre connections in South Africa.<\/p>\n FTTH is only available in a low number of neighbourhoods, mainly in metropolitan areas, while ADSL is available across the country.<\/p>\n Many of the new FTTH clients are migrating from ADSL, due to\u00a0the higher speeds and better service levels associated with fibre.<\/p>\n \u201cA significant number are migrating from ADSL to FTTH, and this number is particularly high at Webafrica because we\u2019re actively encouraging the conversion through internal mechanisms,\u201d said Wright.<\/p>\n Vox Telecom\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> Justin Hovener said they receive around 50% more FTTH sign-ups than new ADSL applications.<\/p>\n He said they are seeing strong growth in the fibre market, with many ADSL subscribers migrating to the technology.<\/p>\n \u201cFTTH penetration into suburban SA is on the increase, so although still a niche product, the consumer appetite for the new technology is increasing,\u201d said Hovener.<\/p>\n \u201cFibre comes at a single cost, unlike ADSL which is a combination of analogue line cost, plus ADSL service fee, plus ISP data account \u2013 all of which pushes the total cost of ownership up.\u201d<\/p>\n Cybersmart CTO Laurie Fialkov said they receive far more FTTH orders than ADSL, especially when their Lightspeed fibre products<\/strong><\/a> are included.<\/p>\n He said there is strong growth in the fibre market, with most ADSL users migrating to fibre when it becomes available in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Fibre-to-the-home is gaining traction in South Africa, with new FTTH subscriptions exceeding new ADSL subscriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":79227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[293,2932,2163],"class_list":["post-117035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl","tag-ftth","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Afrihost launches new capped fibre packages<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"