Last updated: 06 March 2023

Octotel Fibre

Uptime

Metro Network: 99.8% uptime on the backbone from Teraco to the Service Area
Service Area Network: 99.8% uptime on the area distribution network

FTTH Last Mile Minor faults
(Problem effects single unit)

Response Time: 8 business hours
Repaired Time: 26 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 17:00, Monday to Saturday

FTTH Last Mile Major faults
(problem effects multiple customers)

Response Time: 4 business hours
Repaired Time: 18 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 21:00, Monday to Sunday

FTTH Speed

Home services have a 10:1 line speed guarantee

FTTB Last Mile faults

Response Time: 4 business hours
Repaired Time: 12 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 21:00, Monday to Sunday

FTTB Speed

Business services have a 4:1 line speed guarantee

Requests for Credit for downtime will be addresses with Octotel on a case by case scenario dependant on period and severity.


Frogfoot Fibre

Frogfoot Service Level Agreement

  • Frogfoot guarantees next business day resolution for any valid faults logged.
  • Access service availability guarantees not available on this service.
  • Frogfoot guarantees a contention ratio of no more than 10:1 on any access services.

Severity 1 – Critical

Effect on Link: Link is down with critical impact to processes and performance.
Symptoms: Primary link; Backhaul; Core or ENNI link is down, Fibre Optic cable network is down and not functional.

Severity 2 – High

Effect on Link: Degradation of service with decreased processes and performance. The fault is impacting customer services.
Symptoms: Slow connection speeds, link flapping or intermittent, aggregation down, access down or diverse service affected (backup path).

Severity 3 – Moderate

Effect on Link: Minimal impact on services and performance
Symptoms: Change request; maintenance, Intermittent errors or Fibre cutovers. The service degradation or change request related to downtime is expected and has been planned for, or has been mitigated through a work around.


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Uptime

Vumatel Planned Network Availability: 99.5% planned minimum uptime on the area distribution network
Vumatel unplanned Network Availability: Vumatel will, subject to events and conduct beyond its reasonable control provide a minimum of 95% network service availability measured over twelve (12) months. Faults caused by Vumatel’s service providers’ personnel or equipment, and downtime caused by events outside Vumatel’s control is not considered unavailable time by Vumatel.

FTTH Minor faults
(Service is operational with poor performance)

Mean Time To Repair: 24 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 17:00, Monday to Saturday
We are allowed to escalate after 96 hours

FTTH Serious faults
(Faults affecting less than 30 customers in the same network area)

Mean Time To Repair: 18 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 21:00, Monday to Saturday

FTTH Critical faults
(Faults affecting more than 30 customers in the same network area)

Mean Time To Repair: 12 business hours
Business Hours: 8:00 – 21:00, Monday to Saturday


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Standard Openserve SLA (FTTH)

Openserve’s standard SLA is a “Best Effort” SLA. They will attempt to handle repairs ASAP. No credits will be issued for downtime.

Premium Connect Openserve SLA (FTTB)

Openserve Premium Connect offers an 8 (eight) business hour repair time SLA. Business hours are between 07:30 and 16:30 other than a Saturday, Sunday or official public holiday in the Republic of South Africa. The timer starts when Atomic logs the fault with Openserve and does not count outside of the stated Business Hours.

Please note Openserve Premium Connect is only included in our FTTsmB offerings.