Overview
Location
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town
Employees
11-50
Phone
+27 87 470 0800
Founded date
2015
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Sep 16, 2026 | Octotel and MetroFibre merger is on the table | Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl Octotel and MetroFibre Networx are actively assessing a combination that would create South Africa’s third-largest fibre network operator, Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl has told the TechCentral Show. The two companie... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Memo to Eskom: Telkom already lost this fight | The gloves are off. Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati says Business Leadership South Africa and Business Unity South Africa – long the loudest critics of political meddling in state-owned enterprises – are themselves guilty of advocating “politica... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | South Africa’s fibre underdogs are beating the giants | A group of smaller fibre network operators (FNOs) have scored ahead of most of South Africa’s established players in the latest perception survey from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), the officially recognised representat... |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Specialists leave mobile operators behind on home internet | Vox has taken every fixed broadband award in Opensignal’s latest South African benchmarking exercise, an outcome that puts a specialist internet service provider ahead of the country’s largest mobile operators on home connectivity. The comp... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | A million reasons monopolies don’t work | Vumatel has crossed one million fibre subscribers. It’s a hugely significant milestone for the Maziv-owned operator, but the number matters less for what it says about one company than for what it reveals about the transformative power of c... |
| Nov 2, 2024 | WhatsApp's New Lists Feature: A Game Changer for Chat Organization | In a world overflowing with digital noise, WhatsApp has introduced a lifebuoy: the Lists feature. This new tool is designed to help users organize their chats with the precision of a librarian sorting books. Gone are the days of endless scr... |
| Nov 1, 2024 | Bookmarks | WhatsApp’s new Lists feature makes organising chats easier | These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. WhatsApp’s new Lists feature makes organising chats easier and more personal: WhatsApp’s new Lists feature allows users ... |
| 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... |
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FAQ about Octotel
When was Octotel founded?
Octotel was founded in 2015.
What has the press written about Octotel?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Octotel, among them “Octotel and MetroFibre merger is on the table” (Sep 16, 2026) and “Memo to Eskom: Telkom already lost this fight” (Jul 8, 2026).
Is Octotel still active?
Yes, Octotel is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 2, 2026.