Mobile operator MultiLink has extended high-quality data services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) to a large number of subscribers across Haiti.

South African Individual Electronic Communications Network (iECN) licence holders can now offer their enterprise customers a fully hosted mobile Unified Communications solution with hosted PBX functionality.

Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom will soon be able to offer new, personalised services to its subscribers.

Tata Teleservices (TTSL) is India’s first privately owned mobile operator to sign a deal securing its 3G telecoms supplier.

Through a successful collaboration, Qualcomm Incorporated and MTN South Africa provided fans attending the 2010 FIFA World Cup with a quality 3G user experience.

The Networks business of Motorola, teamed with several industry leaders in providing the world’s first end-to-end TD-LTE solution at the Shanghai Expo.

The days when all a business needed - and had to manage - was a switchboard per branch, some landlines and a contract with a mobile network operator are over.

The most advanced telecoms technology is making inroads into solving the digital divide.

While the cellphone has been transformed from the “nice to have” gadget of the mid- to late-1990s, to the essential business tool that it is today, businesses continue to manage their cellphone fleets in much the same way as they did a decade ago.

What switchboard (PBX) configuration is the most cost-effective and efficient for a large, multi-branch or multi-office organisation - a single, large, centralised PBX that leverages the business’s IP infrastructure and the declining cost of broadband connectivity; or smaller, stand-alone PBXs in each branch?

South African companies are increasingly looking to manage their entire telecom infrastructure through a single service provider that can offer services such as voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), least-cost routing, supply and implementation of hardware, and network service and support.

Since deregulation of the South African telecommunications market, the landscape has begun changing rapidly and the market has opened up to new players. Added to this is the wider adoption of technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP) as a result of improved bandwidth, which is driving new providers and services into the marketplace.