ICASA 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,...
Read MoreWebinar Invitation: ‘Backhaul Overview for 2012′
O-Tel Telecoms has invited you to attend the following webinar:Backhaul Overview for 2012Friday, January 20, 20123:00 PM – 4:00 PM Harare, Pretoria Conference Call Number: Tele-Conf Number: 0861 3 66 0 66 | Attendee Access Code: 1503 Click here to register and receive your login instructions | Invite others to this webinar! Message from O-Tel Telecoms: Want to know how to backhaul your VoIP in 2012? Learn the various methods to ensure you deliver high VoIP quality at a low price.The webinar will also briefly cover internet breakout and its various options.Join O-Tel Telecoms...
Read MoreIP Conference 2011
Miro IP Convergence Conference, 2 August 2011, Vodacom World, Midrand Transcript of presentation by Mr Mohammad Patel, CEO, O-Tel Telecom Thank you to Miro for allowing me the opportunity to share my views and experience in this conference. Good to see many familiar names and faces. And finally meeting with many clients where we can now put a face to a name. I’m Mohammad Patel, CEO of O-Tel Telecom. We provide VoIP and Broadband Infrastructure-as-a-Service, catering to WISPs, ISPs, IT, and PBX Companies nationwide. I sit on the executive board of WAPA, alongside Henk...
Read MoreO-Tel CEO Elected as WAPA Deputy Chairperson
Breaking News Mohammad Patel, CEO of O-Tel Telecoms, has been elected as Deputy Chairperson of Wireless Access Providers’ Association of South Africa (WAPA).More details to...
Read MoreO-Tel Upgrades MPLS Due to Growth
O-Tel Telecoms, a infrastructure-as-a-service provider for Telephone 2.0 technology, has upgraded their national MPLS network to cater for the tremendous growth experienced in the last quarter. The Licensed Provider provides white-labelled VoIP infrastructure to a large number of Wireless Internet Service Providers as well as PBX and IT Service Providers using it’s inter-connect with all the large providers and its Cloud Based Telephony Infrastructure. Predominantly, the service partners connect to O-Tel’s switches via load balanced ADSL lines running within O-Tel’s Private MPLS,...
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