Vodacom appoints Alcatel-Lucent to build fibre-to-the-home network

Telecommunications giant Vodacom has taken another step towards expanding its fixed-lined capabilities as it moved to build a fibre-to-the-home network. South Africa’s largest mobile operator appointed communication solution provider Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a gigabit passive optical networking-based converged network that would enable the offerings of mobile, voice, video and data services to 150 000 homes and 100 000 businesses within the next three years.