Q-KON Africa, StarLight ease billing burden
Q-KON Africa now offers service providers across the continent the opportunity to acquire and rollout a StarLight connectivity solution – complete with a new billing system that adds immediate value. StarLight offers affordable and reliable satellite broadband IP...
Connection Telecom offers affordable fibre
Connection Telecom, the leading cloud-based communications provider, has launched the most affordable innovative internet and voice solution which guarantees quality. MD Dave Meintjes says for the price of Internet access, the telco now offers its customers managed...
Bringing voice onto the enterprise network
Migrating from the traditional public switched telephone network to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) offers enterprises many benefits associated with cost, flexibility and sheer powerful functionality, by Dave Meintjes, MD, Connection Telecom. At the heart of this...
Outsource service management infrastructure
There is a rising trend amongst tower companies across the African continent to outsource their service management portfolio. The question that begs answering however is why? Why would a business look to outsource such a key component of its organisation and what...
Is fibre only for the elite?
Imagine crystal clear video conferencing without any connection problems, or having immediate access to files in the cloud or streaming high definition videos without having to wait. If you are one of the lucky few to have a 100Mbps line, then you are living the...
Fibre to the home an ISP revenue opportunity
Internet service providers (ISPs) are likely to benefit from a range of new revenue opportunities as fibre to the home and office becomes more commonplace in South African metros. That’s according to Mark Tinka, Head of Engineering at SEACOM. He says that the...
IPv6 – the Internet protocol with a twist
The adoption and overall success of a new global technology are often driven by a number of factors such as user acceptance, infrastructure readiness or even accessibility, says Dean Young, senior sales Consultant Telecommunications at T-Systems in South Africa....
Mobile is the new VoIP frontier
Just as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is in the process of becoming firmly entrenched as a standard approach for "landline" telecommunications, a new frontier is rapidly opening up. The consumerisation of technology has consumers of all kinds carrying with them...
Choosing optimal base station antennae
The choice of antennae for base stations rarely receives any attention. Antennas are regarded as a cheap commodity that will “do its job” regardless of which antenna users choose, says Bo Jonsson, senior radio frequency expert, CellMax Technologies and Torbjörn Kämpe,...
execMobile launches Unlimited solution
execMobile has launched Unlimited, a solution which gives business travellers an uncapped data solution when travelling overseas in 110 countries. Craig Lowe, execMobile founder, says Unlimited is a subscription product which gives business uncapped Internet for R349...
VoIP phones take over
It is generally agreed that all voice calls will in time be delivered over Internet protocol-based (IP) networks. Just how far we’ve come on this journey may come as a surprise to some, says Rob Lith, business development director at Connection Telecom. The position...
Demystifying small cell backhaul
The world over, mobile network operators and solutions providers have carried on an active discussion of small cell networking, an architectural paradigm shift intended to boost network capacity and coverage, says Siphiwe Nelwamondo, Technical Marketing for Aviat...