The Day VoIP Died…
The Day VoIP Died… During a recent ISPA General Meeting, I once again caught up with the bona-fide telecoms industry players. Discussing the challenges we face and how the industry is moving forward. It is interesting to note that although we all play in the same arena, our strategies differ completely, thus making our approach to market contrastingly innovative. It just shows how the industry has grown from being a five operator network to an industry now offering so many choices to the end user. Operator to operator discussions are (handled) very differently to one with a corporate....
Read MoreNGN POLL
O-Tel's NGN Network Hello, It is no secret that O-Tel Telecoms is moving away from ADSL backhaul. The IPC is reaching its max, and we’re not considering any upgrades to it. The national DSLAMS are over contended. Telkom is upgrading them all to MSANS to change the country’s Broadband Infrastructure towards its ‘New Generation Network’. The ‘NGN’ is what Telkom has been advertising aggressively during the World Cup 2010. We at O-Tel have made it known in the past to Channel Partners that we’re in discussion with South Africa’s Largest...
Read MoreProfitability via Productivity
Best time to get some blogging done is either at airport lounges waiting for a flight, or on the flight itself. No phones, no disturbances, pure tranquillity except for the occasional snoring or kicks at my seat from passengers… Anyway, as I sat through the 15 minutes or so during take off, I looked back at how far we’ve come growing O-Tel from a small company with a big vision who had just received its licence, yet foggy road ahead, to a leading national 1st tier Digital Telephony company it is today. The hurdles we have jumped, the walls we faced, the unclear regulations from ICASA,...
Read MoreVoIP in KZN -2012
Voip in KZN By Carel Boshoff -Vukatel KZN With the introduction of Voice Over Internet Protocol several years ago to consumers in Kwa Zulu/Natal it was clear that a lot had to be done to improve the service and to set higher standards for the industry to create platforms for communication via the internet. Along came O-Tel Telecoms, an international role player in the industry, and things started to change. Products was created and improved on to service the current markets, with the available infra structure for hosting internet based services in mind. Internet based services, with the focus...
Read MoreOpinion Piece: VoIP 2.0
By Mitchell Barker www.whichvoip.co.za VoIP 2.0 – Part 1 VoIP is a commodity. Don’t believe me? I would be surprised to hear of a company who hasn’t been offered this technology in one form or another. I mean really, hard VoIP users topped the 100m mark based on Research conducted in UK and released in 2010. In South Africa, Bred pre 2005 -legalized then, 6 years on, and VoIP is more of a topical subject today than ever before. The only difference now is that VoIP has a new face. There used to be a clear distinction between VoIP, IP Telephony and Unified Communications. Going forward,...
Read MoreVoIP is NOT LCR
The telecoms industry is arguably driven by consumer demand. In South Africa particularly, there has been much pressure from the public for lower costs in communications. This constant pressure has definitely had a positive effect. Inter-connect rates are dropping, broadband costs are lower, bandwidth packages are larger in size at lower prices, and call rates are much more attractive. Prices are expected to drop further. The rhetorical question is whether the above has prompted users to call more? Are they browsing more? The latter yes, studies show that internet access for high...
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