{"id":191126,"date":"2025-03-26T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-technology\/optical-fixed-networks\/18242-are-there-alternatives-to-building-out-fibre-in-africa.html"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:03:01","slug":"are-there-alternatives-to-building-out-fibre-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=191126","title":{"rendered":"Are there alternatives to building out fibre in Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Features\/Fibre_digging_Africa_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As data-hungry services become prevalent globally, escalating data demand is hardly a new phenomenon \u2013 but addressing it can be a challenge in markets where fibre buildout is lacking. In terms of fibre deployment, many African countries face hurdles in terms of investment, logistics or both \u2013 so how can they address these, and are there any viable alternatives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As data-hungry services become prevalent globally, escalating data demand is hardly a new phenomenon \u2013 but addressing it can be a challenge in markets where fibre buildout is lacking. In terms of fibre deployment, many African countries face hurdles in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-optical-fixed-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191127,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191126\/revisions\/191127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}