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Link Africa™ is South Africa’s largest provider of Open Access telecommunications infrastructure and platforms for the cost effective delivery of high speed internet services to all.
Link Africa™ builds, owns and operates Fibre Optic Networks in South Africa’s major cities on a wholesale basis. These networks are comprised of metropolitan and access networks as well as the last mile to the end customer's premises.
Our business aspirations:
Deployment of significant metropolitan backbone infrastructure in the major South African metros.
Deployment of FTTH and FTTB architectures to selected areas.
Deployment of metropolitan area network active networks in the major South African metros.
Deployment of the Link Africa™ service provisioning platform to selected areas in South Africa.
Deployment of significant FTTH and FTTB connections in the five major South African metros.
The value proposition from Link Africa™ for the delivery of telecommunications infrastructure and services is simply to deliver it more cost effectively and faster than anybody else using a range of innovative technologies and partnerships, thereby driving down the cost of broadband for the end user and making South Africa an advanced high speed telecommunications community.
Link Africa™ builds, owns and operates Fibre Optic Networks in South Africa’s major cities on a wholesale basis. These networks are comprised of metropolitan and access networks as well as the last mile to the end customer's premises.
Our business aspirations:
Deployment of significant metropolitan backbone infrastructure in the major South African metros.
Deployment of FTTH and FTTB architectures to selected areas.
Deployment of metropolitan area network active networks in the major South African metros.
Deployment of the Link Africa™ service provisioning platform to selected areas in South Africa.
Deployment of significant FTTH and FTTB connections in the five major South African metros.
The value proposition from Link Africa™ for the delivery of telecommunications infrastructure and services is simply to deliver it more cost effectively and faster than anybody else using a range of innovative technologies and partnerships, thereby driving down the cost of broadband for the end user and making South Africa an advanced high speed telecommunications community.
Overview
Location
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Employees
201-500
Founded date
2011
Mentions in press and media 7
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| Feb 20, 2026 | South Africa’s dynamic spectrum breakthrough | The author, Paul Colmer The digital divide in South Africa just got its most credible solution yet. After years of planning, trials and technical validation, dynamic spectrum sharing has moved from regulatory aspiration to proven reality – ... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | ISPs love Octotel, industry survey finds | Octotel has displaced MetroFibre as South Africa’s highest-rated large fibre network operator (FNO), according to a new study by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa). Every six months, Ispa publishes a ranking of consumer perc... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | South Africa’s fibre network operators rated – by the ISPs | Internet service providers have voiced a growing lack of confidence in upstream fibre network operators, a new survey by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has found. The survey measures the views of Ispa members, which part... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Link Africa ups market share after fibre deals | Fibre-optic infrastructure company Link Africa says it has increased its market share in the fibre-to-the-tower (FTTT) and fibre-to-the-business (FTTB) segments since selling off part of its fibre-to-the-home FIBRE-TO-THE-HOME Contact Mesh ... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Frogfoot’s WiFi-only fibre solution passes more homes | Shane Chorley, head of sales at Frogfoot. Frogfoot Networks, an open-access infrastructure provider, says it has seen increased demand for its WiFi-only fibre FIBRE Contact Mesh Telecom for cost-effective business broadband solutions backed... |
| Apr 12, 2016 | Metrofibre, Link Africa teams up to build Gauteng network |
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FAQ about Link Africa™
When was Link Africa™ founded?
Link Africa™ was founded in 2011.
What has the press written about Link Africa™?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Link Africa™, among them “South Africa’s dynamic spectrum breakthrough” (Feb 20, 2026) and “ISPs love Octotel, industry survey finds” (Oct 31, 2024).
Is Link Africa™ still active?
Yes, Link Africa™ is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 30, 2026.