O-Tel Seeks Further Acquisition Opportunities
Johannesburg, 23 February 2012 – O-Tel Telecoms, Licenced National Telecoms ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ Provider, reviews its plans after the recent boost in Merger & Acquisitions activity within the Telecoms Sector as the company seek strategic growth and cost reduction. M&A activity is not new for the Telecoms industry, especially with the increased emphasis on building Telecoms Infrastructure to encourage Telecoms independence and increase competition to the incumbents. According to Mohammad Patel, CEO of O-Tel Telecoms, ” Mergers and acquisitions enable companies...
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 MoreO-Tel Reaffirm its Superiority in Maritzburg, KZN
Pietermaritzburg- February 9, 2012 - To meet the growing traffic demand created by internet, VoIP and cloud services, O-Tel Telecoms will upgrade its IP network backhaul infrastructure in Pietermaritzburg, Wartburg, including Ladysmith. O-Tel will extend its VoIP backhaul capacity by deploying extended fibre bandwidth pipe to allow for higher call concurrency, aggregated by its partner’s wireless networks – the valuable last mile connection to the customers location. This last mile connection is valuable...
Read MoreICASA to review Impact of Price Cuts
5. Call Termination Regulations It is almost a year since ICASA published the Call Termination Regulations that set a pricing structure for charging wholesale voice call termination services among mobile and fixed line licensees over a three year period, starting from the 1st of March 2011 to the 1st of March 2013, ultimately with termination rates for mobile voice services reducing to R 0.40 per minute and between R 0.12 and R 0.19 per minute for fixed line services (and not as reported in the City Press article of 2012-01-29). At the time of publishing the regulations, the Authority...
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,...
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