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Frogfoot Fibre Changes February 2025

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 February 2025 ๐Ÿธ Frogfootโ€™s fibre pricing and interconnect fees are changing โ€“ that means our packages will be changing too. The price changes on 1 February 2025 is 1 year after Frogfootโ€™s last price changes. Please note: Frogfoot’s standard speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Details of the changes

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Vumatel Fibre Changes May 2024

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 May 2024 ๐Ÿฐ Vumatel will be changing their line pricing and interconnect fees โ€“ 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;DRโ€ฆ From 1 April our home fibre services over the ๐ŸฆŽ 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 ๐Ÿš€ The old price is

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Octotel Fibre Changes For March 2024

TL;DRโ€ฆ From 1 March 2024 ๐Ÿ™ Octotel will be changing their line speeds and pricing โ€“ 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;DRโ€ฆ From 1 February 2024 ๐Ÿธ Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds, pricing and interconnect fees โ€“ 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’s Open Networking Strategy Delivers Content in 300ns

Atomic Access builds fully Open Network with NVIDIA Spectrum ASICs Cape-based ISP Atomic Access now consistently routes content from the NAPAfrica and CINX internet exchange points to fibre networks with latency as low as 300 nanoseconds using fully Open Source software. โ€œWe see 50% less latency for packets crossing the Cape Town peering points with 80% less jitter,โ€ says Joe

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Octotel Double Up Changes

Octotel fibre, 2x the speed and 43% better value! ๐Ÿš€ We are excited to announce that Octotelโ€™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 noteโ€ฆ From 1 November 2023 ๐ŸฆŽย  Openserve changed their line speeds again โ€“ please review ourย Openserve fibre pricing page for more. Changes in the Openserve galaxyโ€ฆ 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. Atomicโ€™s line fees will go up by

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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 Muskโ€™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! ๐Ÿš€

MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1๏ธโƒฃ Filter incorrect routing information2๏ธโƒฃ Stop spoofing3๏ธโƒฃ Coordination (PeeringDB)4๏ธโƒฃ 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