Established in 2010, MetroFibre Networx is a South African owned and managed open access fibre network and broadband fibre provider, based in Gauteng. Today MetroFibre owns and manages South Africa’s first globally compliant Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) open access fibre network, over which it connects in excess of 60 cloud, application, voice and Internet Service Providers with their customers. The company enjoys active shareholding and board representation from Sanlam Private Equity (SPE), which invested in the company in 2013 to grow its own fibre network.
MetroFibre Networx is a MEF Forum member and is licensed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to provide electronic communications services as well as electronic communications network services.