What’s New Since our 2025 article, we saw steady progress in fibre infrastructure rollouts in the Western Cape amid national challenges, reinforcing the Western Cape’s position as one of South Africa’s most connected regions. 2025 marked a year of premium speed breakthroughs with the launch of XGS-PON. WiFi-7 and 2.5Gbps Ethernet technologies became mainstream and good value upgrade options. Octotel
Update 18 December 2025: Atomic now has a rating of 4.99/5 on Hellopeter and is #1 in the ISP category. Update: Read our article for 2026: Top 5 ISPs in the Western Cape in 2026 Choosing the Best ISP in the greater Cape Town area Finding the best internet service provider (ISP) in the Western Cape can feel overwhelming with
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. “We see 50% less latency for packets crossing the Cape Town peering points with 80% less jitter,” says Joe
“Some internet companies are fast to sell. Others just have fast internet.” According to the article some of the bigger South African ISPs seem interested in purchasing the ISP that is for sale. But what does this mean if you are a customer of an ISP that is for sale? Looking into the crystal ball… it’s still difficult to tell.
