Mammoth broadband project heads to Nelson Mandela Bay

The company behind the multi-billion rand rollout of South Africa’s largest long-distance open access fibre optic network arrived in Nelson Mandela Bay last week to interview potential candidates for its internationally accredited Fibre Optic Training Programme.

Fibre optic network operator, FibreCo Telecommunications, will train up 25 industry technicians in the Nelson Mandela Bay region ahead of its rollout later this year of a mammoth project which will link Cape Town and Durban via the Bay and East London using the latest fibre optic technology. FibreCo has already completed half of the first phase of the project, lighting up over 2,400 km of fibre optic cabling which links Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and East London, connecting far-flung rural municipalities in the process.

Once Phase 1 is completed by 2016 and Cape Town and Durban have been linked via the Bay and East London, about 5,000km of state-of-the-art fibre optic cabling will have been laid across the country. This will make FibreCo South Africa’s largest carrier-neutral fibre optic network which, the company says, is laying the foundation to reduce the costs of Internet access while increasing connectivity speeds and creating much-needed jobs in the hi-tech ICT (Information Communications Technology) sector.

The intensive month-long training programme, in partnership with the Seda Nelson Mandela Bay ICT Incubator (SNII), will offer trainees globally accepted ICT accreditation and equip them to be able to maintain and repair complex fibre optic networks locally or abroad. On completion of the training the technicians will be certified under the internationally recognised Fibre Optic Association, which will be involved during the construction and maintenance of the network.

For more information, download the Press Release- Training boost for Eastern Cape ICT sector – June2014 or visit fibreco.co.za

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