Author: Shawn Botes

 As South Africa’s digital economy continues to grow, the need for intelligent, future-focused telecommunications infrastructure is more essential than ever. At the heart of this transformation lies network planning, a foundational discipline that shapes not only how connectivity is delivered, but how it enables progress and further digital transformation. For companies like Openserve, South Africa’s largest infrastructure provider, network planning isn’t just a technical process, but a strategic enabler. It is a way of designing tomorrow’s possibilities today. The evolving role of network planning Network planning has traditionally been defined by demand forecasting, infrastructure rollout and performance optimisation. But in today’s shifting…