Verso announced today the successful completion of a trial of its VoIP products operating on a Pre-WiMAX (IEEE802.16a) network. The trial was with Telkom South Africa (SA), in conjunction with Verso’s partner, Saab Grintek Technologies, one of South Africa’s leading information technology, telecommunications solutions and integration companies.
This trial enabled WiFi-compatible personal digital assistants (PDAs) to […]
New technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) can help African countries achieve development targets.
South Africa has adopted a strategy to generate jobs by attracting international call centres to the country. These centres, already widespread in India, provide outsourced services using high bandwidth connections and VoIP platforms.
VoIP can also support […]
The Olympia Dualphone has just been launched in South Africa, distributed by Even Flow Trade. It’s expected to retail at R 1300. It’s cordless, can be connected to a telephone socket and USB port on a PC and can function as both traditional and VoIP handsets. Users can use programs such as […]
After months of speculation, the Communications Commission of Kenya has released its grand plan of introducing cheaper telephone calls. CCK has published its strategy to reduce the cost of calls made through the Internet, technically known as the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
The advanced technology allows callers to make very cheap international and long-distance […]
Far from being a threat to its dominant market position, the expected surge in usage of voice over internet protocol (VOIP) this year is set to provide a huge boost to fixed-line phone provider Telkom, a survey released yesterday suggests.
Currently VOIP can be used legally in SA only to channel calls within an organisation’s own […]
Voice communications using internet standards will be the fastest-growing technology application among South African corporations in 2005. More than half the organisations interviewed in a survey conducted by World Wide Worx intend to use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for the first time this year — on top of a third of that already use […]