text: Du Toit said Frogfoot is significantly expanding its footprint to smaller towns across the country, underpinned by a focus on providing high-speed national long-distance services. It is doing about 4 000 installations a month.
  Investec is the mandated lead arranger for the debt financing, and it brought in Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Bank as fellow lenders.
  Investec specialised finance consultant Laverne Chetty said fibre operators like Vox and Frogfoot are expanding beyond the upmarket suburbs in the cities and into outlying regions where both homes and businesses still need to be connected.