TelOne offers Fibre to the Home at unbeatable prices and more!

TELONE has continued to surprise many with its recent interesting innovations and service transformation. It is interesting to see how the company has finally re-invented itself as a broadband company. While it was the first company to deploy fibre, it has been in the past surprisingly shy to blow their horn on this major feat. With a fibre footprint of close to 3 000km, telone surely qualifies to call itself a modern fibre company which, with all that capacity, can without doubt be a one-stop-shop for all modern communication, from business, social interaction to entertainment. All that seems to come at an unbeatable low, offering prices up to 90% cheaper than other providers!

the market has in the recent months witnessed a number of innovations coming from telone, chief among them being its aggressive entrance into the fibre space offering Fibre to the Home, Fibre to the Cabinet and Fibre to the Building.

the Fibre to the Home packages, which have taken the market by storm enables residents in new suburbs where there is no copper infrastructure to access service and enjoy the superfast broadband. to date, telone has deployed fibre in several suburbs in and outside Harare. these include Mt Pleasant Heights, Prospect Park, Mainway Meadows, Zimre Park, Ruwa, Mimosa Park in Zvishavane and turf Village in Ngezi. In these areas alone, the company has the capacity to connect over 15 000 homes. this is set to increase as they continue with Ftth project roll out which is almost complete in other areas that include Madokero, Westgate Area D, Good Hope and tynwald North.

the company’s Ftth comes at a time when most Zimbabweans are using more bandwidth-hungry applications and have easy access to data enabled devices and appliances. Starting from $36, consumers get speeds of up to 5Mbps and a download cap of 20Gb. the unlimited package of $123 offers speeds of 20Mbps, and other ISPS are struggling to match that price! this also comes with free installation of an IP landline and the fibre optic cables at the customer’s residence.

We probably have all been wondering how this is possible, especially with the quality of service we are now seeing and such high speeds. Seems telone’s share holding in the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), which is the largest shareholder in the EASSY undersea cable is paying dividents. telOne through the connection to this system has the ability to bring guaranteed international bandwidth capacity of up to 96 Stm1s, which can last for generations.

through WIOCC, telone also has access to the West Coast Cable Systems (WACS), the cable connecting Africa to Europe and Asia (EIG), the cable system connecting Southern Africa to Europe and Asia (SAT 3 and SAFE), Seacom, Sea-me-we 3 and several cable systems around Africa. these connections have resulted in telone being able to land internet capacity into Zimbabwe at the lowest cost and with full diversity catering for Zimbabweans across the spectrum. With such an investment, no other player can beat telOne’s low price ranges for connectivity and service.

WIOCC offers carriers that are affordable, reliable connectivity to over 400 locations across 30 African countries — utilising more than 50 000 kilometres of terrestrial fibre and 40 000 kilometres of submarine fibre optic cable. WIOC’S international network reach currently extends to 100 cities in 29 countries in Europe and more than 700 cities in 70 countries globally.

What this means for all heavy users is guaranteed capacity. Furthermore, telone through this partnership can facilitate business connectivity for clients with operations in other countries. It can also facilitate connectivity between the Zimbabwean office and the regional/international offices of a particular multinational company at the same tariffs with 100% redundancy and 24-hour support.