Smarter Open Access ("SOA")
Smarter Open Access builds shared fibre infrastructure for modern cities.
We develop open-access city fibre networks that allow multiple ISP's to serve homes and businesses over one shared, high-capacity infrastructure platform.
The Model
One network. Multiple providers. Better utilisation.
SOA develops and owns the physical fibre infrastructure. ISPs compete on services over the shared network.
Cities gain long-life digital infrastructure without every provider needing to dig, duplicate and overbuild.
For Cities
Shared fibre infrastructure that reduces duplicated street works, increases provider choice, and supports long-term digital capacity for homes, businesses and public services.
For ISP's
Wholesale access to citywide fibre networks, helping ISPs enter new markets faster without funding, building and operating the full physical network.
For Investors
Asset-backed fibre infrastructure, long-term wholesale revenue potential, and a platform built from proven open-access deployment experience.
Why
Founder-led. Execution-tested. Built for open access.
SOA is led by Mike Harris, co-founder of SiFi Networks America, drawing on more than a decade of practical open-access fiber deployment experience in the United States.
Watch the Open Access Story
The short video explains why open-access fiber is a more efficient infrastructure model:
One shared citywide network, multiple ISP tenants, recurring wholesale access revenue, and ownership of the enduring fiber asset.
Built by overcoming the difficulties of fiber deployment
Smarter Open Access brings together all the agreements, operators, technology, software, ISPs, and supply chain needed for immediate execution.
City development
Design and engineering
Construction partners
Nokia technology
Network operations
OSS/BSS
ISP onboarding
Operational reporting
From city agreement to operating network.
Smarter Open Access is designed to move through the full open-access lifecycle without rebuilding the operating model at each stage.
SOA brings together the city agreements, design capability, technology partners, operating systems, ISP relationships and deployment processes required to move from city approval to live network.
The result is a coordinated deployment of 10Gbps-capable fibre networks delivering digitally connected and sustainable cities while closing the digital divide.
