Environmental Considerations

South Africa's telecommunications infrastructure requires massive investment to deliver on the promise offered by broadband. The build out of this infrastructure is time consuming and an extremely disruptive process to both commerce and industry and the man in the street. DFA is sensitive to its own potential environmental impact and adopted the concept of open access in order to provide the public with the best of both worlds – a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, delivered in the shortest possible time, with minimal impact to the surrounding environment.

Deregulation has meant that services that were previously the domain of a single monopoly operator, will now be rolled out by multiple telecommunications operators. This disruption is further aggravated by the fact that South Africa currently has a massive backlog of fibre optic capacity that needs to be caught up. The DFA infrastructure is able to positively impact the environment while helping customers realise the transformative power of broadband networks.

DFA lead the industry by deploying a large-scale open access ducting system, and operate South Africa's most reliable all-fibre network infrastructure. These state-ofthe- art platforms enable customers to offer the most advanced communications services available today - services that drive productivity while mitigating adverse environmental impacts. Environmental conservation is everybody’s business. It also happens to make good business sense.

Each individual and organisation contributes to the production of carbon emissions, whether heating and cooling homes or offices, driving a car or flying to business meetings. At DFA, we’re harnessing the power of our networks and the expertise of our people to enable a win-win situation - making customers more effective and productive while enabling them to do their part for the environment.