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Announcements from FirstNet, and what the press says about us.
29 Oct 2026Cloud backup: Backup as a Service from FirstNetAn encrypted, immutable offsite copy of your servers without building a second site: FirstNet Backup as a Service, powered by Veeam.29 Oct 2026Firewall as a Service: Fortinet and Sophos, run by FirstNetNo firewall box to buy or look after: FirstNet runs Fortinet and Sophos firewalls for you, hosted on our platform or on site, as Firewall as a Service.29 Oct 2026Cloudflare WAF and DDoS protection, supported locally by FirstNetCloudflare WAF, DDoS, bot and API protection from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, designed, tuned and supported by FirstNet engineers in South Africa.27 Oct 2026Introducing the FirstNet Modern NetworkFirstNet broadband, a Peplink router at every site and Cloudflare zero trust, supplied and run as one service, with four ways to buy.27 Oct 2026Retire the VPN: zero trust with Cloudflare, run by FirstNetFirstNet now leads secure access with Cloudflare Zero Trust: per-app access instead of a VPN, web filtering and data protection, served from South African data centres.27 Oct 2026LEO with Peplink: satellite, fibre and 5G as one connectionPeplink routers bond Eutelsat OneWeb LEO satellite with fibre and 5G into one connection, and Peplink's new MAX Orbit series bonds several satellite terminals on one router.16 Oct 2026Calls answered around the clock by FirstNet's AI receptionistYour callers get a natural conversation, day or night, and the calls that need a person reach your team with the context.15 Oct 2026Every conversation counts: why call recording must be compliantRecording a call and managing a compliant recording are not the same thing. Ushika Gayapershad on RICA, POPIA and governing recordings from purpose to deletion.13 Oct 2026True redundancy starts with real choiceTwo links from two providers can still share one route. Sonia De Marigny on why carrier-agnostic design, not just a second link, is what keeps sites connected.13 Oct 2026Beyond the call: verified business calling with TruecallerUnfamiliar numbers get ignored. Ushika Gayapershad on how verified business calling helps legitimate businesses get recognised, what the analytics add, and where its limits are.12 Oct 2026Cloud repatriation: are your workloads in the right place?Cloud repatriation is not a retreat from public cloud. Greg Bayliss-Lane on why the real question is where each workload should run, and five questions to ask first.11 Oct 2026Private cloud in South Africa, for workloads outside public cloudFirstNet’s private cloud runs on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V in South African data centres, so businesses can move existing workloads without a large migration project and keep control of where their data lives.11 Oct 2026Managed EDR: endpoint detection and response, run by FirstNetFirstNet runs endpoint detection and response as a managed service: endpoints watched around the clock, threats contained and removed, and FirstNet’s team responding when an alert is raised.05 Aug 2026FirstNet launches Enterprise LEO Satellite Internet in South AfricaFirstNet has launched its new Enterprise LEO Satellite Internet Business Plans. They give businesses reliable, high speed internet in areas where traditional fibre and fixed wireless services are not available or not…01 Aug 2026FirstCoreAI launches a sovereign AI Factory in South AfricaFirstNet has launched FirstCoreAI and its AI Factory: GPU-powered AI inference in FirstNet’s South African data centre, so prompts, documents and outputs stay in South Africa under South African law.10 Mar 2025Yeastar names FirstNet South Africa’s number one hosting partnerYeastar has recognised the FirstNet Voice team as South Africa’s number one hosting partner for Yeastar Cloud PBX, backed by FirstNet’s SIP trunks, network interconnects and 24x7 support.29 May 2024FirstNet is first on the 2Africa cable from Durban to Cape TownWIOCC has connected FirstNet to the Durban–Cape Town segment of the 2Africa subsea cable, the first client locally or internationally on that segment, giving customers a more resilient, low-latency route.
FirstNet in the media
TechCentral · 2024FirstNet leverages WIOCC 2Africa cable for unprecedented connectivity TechCentral · 2024WIOCC and 2Africa: an alternative to national long-distance fibre (TCS+ podcast) PR Newswire · 2025Yeastar honours partners worldwide at the Yeahs Awards 2025 MyBroadbandYeastar cloud solutions are propelling FirstNet to impressive heights Africa Outlook · 2022FirstNet Technology Services: connectivity comes first ITWeb · 2021FirstNet broadens its security offering with EDR solution from Fortinet