Today saw the official launch of the second fixed line national operator in South Africa - Neotel
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- Written on: August 31st, 2006
- Time written: 4:48 pm
- Filed in: Phrooti News
Neotel Launch
At last Telkom has competition. Today saw the official launch of the second national fixed line operator in South Africa - Neotel. Some of their services are already live, including the provision of international wholesale bandwidth to over ten large clients. These clients are existing fixed and mobile operators, as well as Internet Solutions and MWEB. Neotel plan to start rolling out other services to large companies in December.
According to their website “Neotel aims to reduce the cost of doing business in South Africa, and to extend communications to the second economy. We are focused and flexible, intent on understanding your requirements and delivering services suited to your specific needs. Gradually, our service portfolio will grow to include basic voice, data, internet, virtual private networks, network management and hosting services, although we currently offer international voice and data transit services for other telecoms providers. We intend to become the preferred provider of leading-edge telecoms services in South Africa.”
This additional competition can only be good news and while not one of the initial “ten large clients” be assured that Phrooti are monitoring the situation and will continue to purchase the most cost effective services for their subscribers.