DFA
TelecommunicationsGauteng, South Africa501-1000 Employees
DFA is a South Africa–based telecommunications company that finances, builds, installs, manages, and maintains a dark fibre network to carry metro and long-haul traffic. The company began rolling out its network in October 2007 and has deployed over 15,000 kilometres of fibre nationwide. It operates an open-access model, leasing secure transmission and backbone fibre to telecommunications operators, internet service providers, media entities, tertiary education institutions, municipalities, government bodies, and other businesses, with equal access to the infrastructure. In addition to dark fibre, DFA offers open-access managed services that provide the necessary equipment and ongoing maintenance to keep services operational. The company is headquartered in Irene, Centurion, with regional offices in Durban and Cape Town and a network monitoring centre in Rivonia, Johannesburg, and it employs between 501 and 1,000 people.