Lightspeed network — Cybersmart runs its own Lightspeed fibre network and is one of SA’s most engineering-led ISPs, with symmetrical gigabit. Its story, coverage and reliability.
cybersmart
Type
ISP + own network (Lightspeed)
Since
1998
HQ
Cape Town
Top speed
Up to 1 Gbps symmetrical
Cybersmart is the network for people who care about the engineering, it builds its own fibre (Lightspeed), designs its own hardware, and obsesses over speed and clean IP.
The story behind Cybersmart
Cybersmart began life in 1996 as a Sea Point internet café and became Cybersmart in 1998, founded by Laurie Fialkov who still leads it. In 2022 an infrastructure fund took a minority stake to fund fibre expansion. Its own fibre network is branded Lightspeed.
How Cybersmart & Lightspeed work
Cybersmart is unusual: it’s both an ISP and a network operator. Its own Lightspeed fibre is open-access (other ISPs resell over it), and where Lightspeed doesn’t reach, Cybersmart sells over other networks like Openserve, Vumatel, Frogfoot, Octotel and MetroFibre. Check your address to see what’s available.
Where Lightspeed reaches
Lightspeed’s own fibre is selective and concentrated in Cape Town neighbourhoods, while Cybersmart’s service reaches much further by riding on the big open-access networks nationally.
Speeds & signing up
Cybersmart and Lightspeed offer uncapped, symmetrical fibre up to 1 Gbps, with a strong emphasis on native IPv6. Check your address to compare packages.
Common questions
Is Lightspeed the same as Cybersmart?
Lightspeed is Cybersmart’s own fibre network; Cybersmart is the ISP. Other ISPs can also sell over Lightspeed.
Cybersmart fibre deals & prices
Uncapped fibre on Cybersmart runs from R605 to R1 105/month across 5 speed tiers (cheapest ISP shown per speed). Prices are refreshed weekly and are best-effort estimates — confirm at sign-up. Actual availability depends on whether Cybersmart is live at your address.
100 Mbpsfrom
↑ 100 Mbps
R605/mo
200 Mbps
↑ 200 Mbps
R720/mo
500 Mbps
↑ 500 Mbps
R889/mo
750 Mbps
↑ 750 Mbps
R1 105/mo
1 Gbps
↑ 1 Gbps
R775/mo
Cybersmart fibre coverage map — how to check your address
Cybersmart publishes a broad coverage map, but a network-wide map only shows the suburbs where Cybersmart has built — not whether the fibre has actually reached your home. Coverage is laid street by street, so two houses a few doors apart can be on different sides of the rollout. The only reliable check is at your exact address.
Instead of reading Cybersmart’s map and then checking each ISP one by one, enter your address once on FibreScout: we confirm whether Cybersmart is live at your home right now, and show every ISP package on the line by real monthly price.
Cybersmart builds street by street, so the only reliable check is at your exact address. Enter your address on FibreScout and we confirm whether Cybersmart is live at your home and show every ISP package on the line by real monthly price.
How much is Cybersmart fibre?
On Cybersmart, uncapped fibre runs from about R605 to R1 105 per month across 5 speed tiers (up to 1 Gbps), depending on the ISP. Prices are refreshed weekly; confirm at sign-up.
Is Cybersmart the same as my internet provider?
No — Cybersmart is the network operator (FNO) that lays and runs the fibre line. You buy your internet package from an ISP that sells over Cybersmart. One line, many ISPs to choose from.