Sep 5, 2016
Telecom regulators across many countries across Africa are beginning to focus on available spectrum licenses to advance digital migration. While the majority of countries failed to meet the ITU’s June 2015 migration deadline, there is an increasing number that...
Aug 30, 2016
Until now, the offerings of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have been geared towards mobile broadband and voice packages, writes Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. As a result, their networks have been built to cater for personal devices such as...
Aug 17, 2016
FTTX is in growing demand across South Africa, but in meeting this demand, it is important for telcos to control the costs of infrastructure build without losing focus on quality, writes Clive Maasch, GM at Tank Industries. The telecoms and internet sectors,...
Jul 12, 2016
With carrier grade fibre connectivity now the de facto standard for enterprise networks, fibre optic customers of can enjoy the ease-of-use benefits this brings. Fibre optic can be classified as a carrier-class product in the sense that it comes standard with...
May 20, 2016
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ticks all the required boxes and yet this telecommunications technology that’s more affordable than cellular and more reliable than copper continues to suffer something of a reputation problem. “VoIP is cheaper than it...
May 9, 2016
From the first voicemail and SMS message to today’s Over The Top (OTT) offerings, mobile operators have gone full circle in their approach to Value Added Services (VAS), writes Francois Joubert, regional director at TruTeq Group. From its beginnings as an...
