MetroFibre has opened its 8th Fibre Experience Store in Bloemhof, its first in South Africa’s North West Province, expanding access to affordable fibre.
MetroFibre has opened a new customer-facing Fibre Experience Store in Bloemhof, marking its first physical location in the North West Province. The MetroFibre store is located at the Shoprite Mini Centre at the corner of R34 and Noord Street.
The company says the store is designed as a local access point for fibre-to-the-home, which is fixed broadband delivered through fibre cables into a building. Customers can test Wi‑Fi speeds, compare packages, get technical support, pay monthly bills, recharge prepaid accounts, and use free Wi‑Fi during power or network outages.
MetroFibre also highlighted its prepaid option, MetroConnect, which offers no-contract fibre packages at 30, 50, or 80 Mbps. Mbps means “megabits per second”, a simple way to describe how fast data can move, like the width of a pipe carrying water.
Bloemhof becomes the eighth location in MetroFibre’s Experience Store footprint. The other stores are in KwaThema, Steeldale, Thembisa, and Riverside View in Gauteng, New Brighton and Zwide in Gqeberha, and Beaufort West in the Western Cape. MetroFibre says more store openings are planned across the North West Province in 2026.
Physical stores can lower the friction of getting connected in underserved areas, especially where sign-ups, payments, and troubleshooting are hard to do online. This matters for schools, job seekers, and SMMEs that depend on stable internet for learning, applications, and day-to-day operations.
MetroFibre says its network now passes more than 90,000 homes, with nearly one in four already connected. If accurate, that take-up rate signals demand for affordable, reliable home broadband in communities that have often been skipped by fibre rollout.
The company also says it hires store staff locally and supports local installers and field sales teams. That approach ties connectivity expansion to nearby jobs, which can make network growth more sustainable at the community level.
Primary Source: MetroFibre
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