Hermanus is ‘Lightstruck-years’ ahead in South Africa

Over the past months, the Hermanus Central Business District from Eastcliff Spar to Northcliff has been filled with the sounds and dust of the roads being chopped up and blue tubes filled with fibre optic cables being installed.

This week, the first section of the fibre network covering R20 million of the total planned R150 million investment by Lightstruck will go live. The first 1 500 properties are now fibre ready and the first 300 customers will soon be connected.

“Hermanus now has an underlying world-class smart city fibre network infrastructure that matches its international ambitions as a UNESCO Creative City and it is up to residents to embrace the opportunities that will now be unleashed,” says Hannes Pieterse, the CEO of Lightstruck, a fibre installation company that focuses on developing last-mile fibre networks across Southern Africa.

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