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Fibre and fixed wireless battle in South Africa
While fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) provides South Africans with stable and affordable uncapped Internet, the technology is not always feasible to deploy, opening the door to competing wireless technologies.
These competing technologies, called fixed wireless access (FWA), rely on radio networks for the last-mile connection instead of a wired connection, such as a fibre cable.