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Vumatel Fibre Changes May 2024

TL;DR… From 1 May 2024 🐰 Vumatel will be changing their line pricing and interconnect fees – that means our home fibre pricing for Vumatel services will be changing too. Details of the changes can be seen in the table below. Changes To Vumatel Home Fibre Services The old price is the price that will be charged prior to 1

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Openserve Fibre Changes April 2024

TL;DR… From 1 April our home fibre services over the 🦎 Openserve fibre network will cost a little bit more. There are no speed changes as all home fibre services on Openserve received a free speed upgrade 1 November 2023. Details of the changes can be seen in the table below. Changes To Line Speeds 🚀 The old price is

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Octotel Fibre Changes For March 2024

TL;DR… From 1 March 2024 🐙 Octotel will be changing their line speeds and pricing – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. Now into the details. Octotel has given all ISPs notice that they are changing their fibre service offering from 1 March 2024, which affects the speeds and prices we can provide. They have announced

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Frogfoot Home Fibre Changes Coming In 2024

TL;DR… From 1 February 2024 🐸 Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds, pricing and interconnect fees – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. Please note: New speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Frogfoot have given all ISPs notice that they are changing their fibre service offering from 1

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Atomic joins the Openserve Fibre Network

Atomic’s first customers went live on the Openserve fibre network this week and we have IPv6 working! About Openserve Yes, Telkom is not the company with the best reputation. When we started Atomic we wanted to only offer services on independent Open Access fibre networks and we did not want to deal with legacy PPPoE/Radius systems. We ideally also wanted to offer

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Octotel Double Up Changes

Octotel fibre, 2x the speed and 43% better value! 🚀 We are excited to announce that Octotel’s Double-Up promotion will soon become a permanent feature. While we have been offering the double-up speeds at no extra charge during the promotion, Octotel will be adjusting their line fees on 1 April 2023. Therefore, we will need to adjust our Octotel packages

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Openserve Package Changes

Please note… From 1 November 2023 🦎  Openserve changed their line speeds again – please review our Openserve fibre pricing page for more. Changes in the Openserve galaxy… Openserve will be changing their fibre line fees and speeds on 1 April 2023, so we have had to adjust our Openserve fees and line speeds. Atomic’s line fees will go up by

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Frogfoot Fibre Changes

TL;DR… From 1 February 2023 🐸  Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds and pricing – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. We increased our pricing on certain lines less than Frogfoot’s increases and lowered our higher speed lines (in spite of their increases). Please note: These changes do not apply to links in the Century City

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Starlink vs Hollow Fibre

Will we see 75ms pings from Cape Town to London soon? Using Space Lasers or Undersea Fibre? You probably know about Elon Musk’s Starlink project, but have you heard about Hollow Fibre? Both of these ideas have the potential to radically reduce your international latency. You are probably thinking: how is this possible? Surely the speed of light is constant and we just

Atomic is fully MANRS compliant! 🚀

MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1️⃣ Filter incorrect routing information2️⃣ Stop spoofing3️⃣ Coordination (PeeringDB)4️⃣ Global validation (RPKI) Atomic is one of only 5 South African ISPs that implements all of these https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing