The FTTH/B (fibre to the home/business) landgrab is well and truly underway. Neighbourhoods across South Africa are inundated with holes, digging, orange bunting and assurances of speeds so fast, laptops will catch fire.

According to BMI-TechKnowledge, FTTH could potentially hit the 360 000 active subscription milestone by 2019, with growth driven predominantly by residential suburbs. This statistic is largely due to the level of fibre investment that has taken place over the past year with Vumatel, Telkom, MTN, Dark Firbre Africa and Vodacom, among others, aggressively pushing for space and fibre domination. Fibre is in the home, the business and the city and has the ability to transform the workplace and potentially shift traditional boundaries and entrenched ways of working.