The Economic Development Ministry has invited companies to carry out a trial of "micro-trenching", which involves laying fibre-optic cable in narrow, shallow slits cut in the road surface by ...

MetroFibre Networx has announced that it has installed fibre infrastructure in the Port Elizabeth suburb of Summerstrand using micro-trenching. Micro-trenching is a fibre-laying technique that ...

The digging process occurs via either trenching or horizontal boring, with the latter utilised in order to minimise digging through driveways, NBN added in response to another Question on Notice.