Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare Details How The Company Overcame Covid Related Challenges
Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare Details How The Company Overcame Covid Related Challenges. In an interview with My Broadband, South African businessman and CEO of Vumatel Dietlof Mare detailed some of the challenges the company faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said, “The challenge on us was scalability obviously and quality. We had to make hard decisions, whether we continue with deployment through this Covid-19 period or do we hold out and focus more on the connectivity side. The other challenge for us was put our systems to cope with the scalability side of it.”
Vumatel was founded in 2014 by industry veterans Niel Schoeman, and Johan Pretorius, who pioneered Fibre to the Home (FTTH) in South Africa with a pilot project in Parkhurst. Vumatel has since connected homes to high speed open access fibre broadband across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Since launching the business in 2014, Vumatel has been voted the best fixed-line broadband provider in South Africa. Vumatel builds the network in partnership with the community and connects every home, complex and apartment block to super-fast world-class fibre broadband. Vumatel also connects every Primary and High School passed when deploying the network to free 1GBPS fibre broadband internet. Vumatel builds an open access fibre network which means that Vumatel is not a service provider but simply installs the infrastructure.
Every company has developed the strategies that they are going to use to in order to overcome challenges that may arise due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is therefore very important as a company to choose to focus on departments that are a priority and need attention so that the business can continue to operate and grow regardless of outside factors.
The Pandemic caught a lot of businesses off-guard but choosing to come up with innovative solutions such as focusing on making sure that the business stays afloat is what makes that difference between its survival and the end of it.
