Vumatel has big plans to roll out fibre infrastructure to South Africa’s poorest people.
Vumatel says there is a major opportunity in South Africa to provide fibre to households earning less than R5,000 per month, and that it is busy testing the viability of lower-cost services for this market.
Remgro holds a stake in Community Investment Ventures Holdings , which owns Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa.Vuma Reach is a prepaid product, the cheapest being uncapped 20Mbps download with 10Mbps upload speeds. ISPs charge between R375 and R400 for 28 days of access.However, where Vuma Reach is aimed at households with a monthly income of between R5,000 and R30,000, Vuma Key will be for families who get by on less.
Vuma Reach’s market is 4.8 million households, whereas Vuma Key’s target market includes 9.7 million homes.In line with their Unlimited Access Strategy — “leaving nobody behind” — they will expand into rural towns. Mare said that Vumatel is currently running an FTTH pilot project in Alexandra to measure the technical and commercial viability of rolling out fibre networks in lower-income areas.
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