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Trevor van Zyl

Trevor van Zyl

CEO of Octotel, the Cape Town-based open-access fibre network operator, and a frequent commentator on South Africa's fibre market.

Sep 16, 2026

1:04
As a starting point, maybe you could just take us through Octotel's footprint as it stands today and where future bills are going to take the company.
1:14
Yeah, great.
1:14
Thanks, Duncan, and thanks for having me on the show today.
1:17
Yeah, Octotel, as you already mentioned, started back in 2016, tiny little network operation here in Cape Town.
1:24
We had a little head office in the Atlantic seaboard in Seapoint, and that's where we started the fiber journey of what has now become the Western Cape's largest independent F&O.
1:38
From there, you know, we really focused on some of the higher density sort of MDU type environments like the Atlantic seaboard.
1:46
We quickly got moving fast in that, scaled up our operations, which was very exciting back in the day, figuring out, you know, where leave applications and all that sort of stuff going on.

13 MINS LATER

14:50
What's your take on that? And do you think that it's inevitable that FNOs are going to get into the ISP game as well? And does Octotel have any plans to do that?
1:04
As a starting point, maybe you could just take us through Octotel's footprint as it stands today and where future bills are going to take the company.
1:14
Yeah, great.
1:14
Thanks, Duncan, and thanks for having me on the show today.
1:17
Yeah, Octotel, as you already mentioned, started back in 2016, tiny little network operation here in Cape Town.
1:24
We had a little head office in the Atlantic seaboard in Seapoint, and that's where we started the fiber journey of what has now become the Western Cape's largest independent F&O.
1:38
From there, you know, we really focused on some of the higher density sort of MDU type environments like the Atlantic seaboard.
1:46
We quickly got moving fast in that, scaled up our operations, which was very exciting back in the day, figuring out, you know, where leave applications and all that sort of stuff going on.

13 MINS LATER

14:50
What's your take on that? And do you think that it's inevitable that FNOs are going to get into the ISP game as well? And does Octotel have any plans to do that?

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