An Agnostix business
Build the fibre once. Let every provider sell on it.
LitSpan Africa runs open-access fibre and the operations and business system on top of it. A provider brings its brand and its customers. LitSpan carries the traffic and runs the software, so the provider can sell fibre to the home without laying a metre of it.
Five cables on one pole
The old way to become an ISP is to trench fibre, buy OLTs, set up billing, integrate payments and staff a NOC, all before signing a single customer. Most providers never get past the capital. Those that do often end up running their own cable down the same poles as everyone else.
The street does not need five networks. It needs one that works.
How open access works
One party owns and lights the fibre, and many providers sell over it. Each provider's traffic carries its own outer VLAN tag (802.1ad QinQ), and the platform reads the owner of each circuit from its position on the network. A provider cannot see or claim another provider's customers.
The provider brings
- Its brand and its customer relationship.
- Its own packages and prices.
- Sales and first-line support.
- Mobile-money collection in its own name.
LitSpan runs
- The fibre and the handoff at the network edge.
- Provisioning over TR-069, and RADIUS authentication.
- Billing, rating and invoicing for every provider.
- The NOC, monitoring and AI-assisted ticketing.
Who it is for
ISPs that want to grow without building. Mobile operators adding fixed broadband under their own brand. Enterprises and campuses that want managed connectivity. Counties and developers connecting estates and towns, with many providers on one build.
Built layer by layer, reported honestly
GPON and point-to-point fibre from the exchange to the premises, with an in-country node running the software next to the network. Equipment from Huawei, FiberHome, MikroTik, Juniper and Cisco sits behind one adapter, so no operator is locked to a supplier.
The LitSpan network is still coming up, on a pan-African roadmap. The team behind it has built open-access systems for companies around the world.
Data stays in country
Each operator runs its own node in country. Subscriber and financial data stays there, and the central plane holds none of it.
A model that fits the partner
What LitSpan owns and how a partner pays depends on the use case. Some partners sell over LitSpan's fibre, and some run an open-access network of their own on its platform. Commercial models are arranged per partner.
SaidaAI runs the operations
LitSpan runs on SaidaAI for two jobs, both measurable. It correlates NOC alarms, so a single fault does not become fifty tickets. And it drafts and routes tickets, so the team spends less time on triage and more time fixing.
Want to sell on LitSpan, or run an open-access network of your own?
Tell LitSpan where you operate and what you need: hello@litspan.com.