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https://vumatel.co.za/
Last activity: 18.09.2026
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Vumatel was founded in 2014 by industry veterans Niel Schoeman, and Johan Pretorius, who pioneered Fibre to the Home (FTTH) in South Africa with a pilot project in Parkhurst. Vumatel has since connected homes to high speed open access fibre broadband across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

Since launching the business in 2014, Vumatel has been voted the best fixed-line broadband provider in South Africa. Vumatel builds the network in partnership with the community and connects every home, complex and apartment block to super-fast world-class fibre broadband. Vumatel also connects every Primary and High School passed when deploying the network to free 1GBPS fibre broadband internet.

Vumatel builds an open access fibre network which means that Vumatel is not a service provider but simply installs the infrastructure. Residents can then choose from a number of Internet Service Providers for internet packages ranging from R396 per month* The open access nature of the network prevents the duplication of infrastructure and drives down prices for the end-user.

Vumatel is recognised as the FTTH industry pioneer and leader. Vumatel has one of the most diverse range of services on its network and ensures that the end user has a world of options to choose from. This also makes the market far more competitive and drives down prices for the consumer. Vumatel has over 20 Internet Service Providers on its network ranging from Cell C and MWEB to Afrihost and Telkom.

Vumatel is committed to building a connected South Africa. As our broadband demands increase and we rely on the internet more and more, there is a tangible need for a future-proof technology that will support the growing demands for internet speed and capacity. That future-proof technology is VUMA fibre.
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Location: South Africa, Gauteng, Sandton
Employees: 501-1000
Founded date: 2014

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18.09.2026Vumatel operating profit jumps 57% as the Vodacom deal landsVumatel lifted operating profit 57% to R2.16-billion in the 12 months to 31 March 2026, on revenue up 15.3% to R4.43-billion, according to figures disclosed by Remgro in its results for the year to 30 June 2026 published on Friday. It is th...
08.07.2026Memo to Eskom: Telkom already lost this fightThe 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...
30.06.2026South Africa’s fibre underdogs are beating the giantsA 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...
26.06.2026Gigabit fibre arrives in Joburg township for R5/dayFibertime founder Alan Knott-Craig Fibertime, the pay-as-you-go township fibre network founded by serial telecoms entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig, has reaveled that it has recorded download speeds of 1Gbit/s on its network in Alexandra, Johan...
14.05.2026Telkom recovering after Cape storms disrupt networkTelkom has confirmed that the severe weather that battered the Cape provinces this week disrupted parts of its network, with the impact falling primarily on internet services rather than voice calls. In a statement, Telkom said the operator...
12.05.2026Herotel becomes South Africa’s largest retail fibre ISPHerotel has become South Africa’s largest retail fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet service provider by connected homes, according to the latest Africa Analysis FTTH Quarter Tracking report. The Stellenbosch-based ISP, which is owned by Vuma...
11.05.2026Vodacom paid nearly twice book value for its Maziv stakeThe detail in Vodacom Group’s full-year results announcement, released on Monday, reveals just how richly the South African mobile operator has valued its long-fought-for acquisition of a stake in Maziv – the fibre business that houses Vuma...
10.05.2026South Africa cuts red tape for dealmakersTrade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau has substantially raised the monetary thresholds at which mergers must be notified to the Competition Commission, in a move that a senior competition lawyer has said will accelerate many ...
05.05.2026Vodacom advances on strong trading updateVodacom Group expects earnings per share for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 to rise by between 20% and 25%, the JSE-listed mobile operator said in a trading statement after markets closed on Monday. Shares in the group climbed 5.4% ...
20.04.2026Specialists leave mobile operators behind on home internetVox 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...
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