NEWS ANALYSIS: Fighting for SA’s fibre pie
Companies will do what they can to increase market share in what is considered to still be a largely untapped market
08 August 2022 - 05:03
The head of MTN’s SA unit says the operator’s ambitions to take up a greater share of the local fibre market are unlikely to be achieved through organic growth. This further drives the impetus for deals to acquire growth in the local sector, as seen in other parts of the world.
At the turn of the century and in the 2010s, the race was about which operator had the most cellphone towers. Now fibre is the game. Telecoms companies continue to report growing data revenues and internet use on their networks, driving up the need for a solid infrastructure base...
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