South Africa Hit by Major Fibre Network Outages Across Multiple Operators
South Africa has experienced widespread fibre connectivity disruptions affecting multiple major network operators simultaneously, constituting one of the country's most significant national connectivity crises on record. The outages have affected business and consumer internet access across the country.
SA Outages: when redundancy turns out to be a single point of failure
Multiple operators going down at the same time isn't just bad luck — it usually means they share more infrastructure than the word 'multiple' implies.
South Africa's fibre market has several competing brands. But competing brands routing traffic through the same underlying cables, exchange points or backhaul links means one fault hits everyone at once.
For any founder or business on the continent building on the assumption that connectivity is reliable: this is the reminder that diversification at the service level doesn't protect you if the physical layer underneath isn't actually diverse.
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