A VoIP early adopter

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A VoIP early adopter

IT'S NO SURPRISE to step into a hotel at in Dubai Media City or an office in London and see a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony system, but one seldom steps into an office back home in South Africa and sees one.

 

[bwana]

IT'S NO SURPRISE to step into a hotel at in Dubai Media City or an office in London and see a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony system, but one seldom steps into an office back home in South Africa and sees one.

It kind of a surprise to me - I always heard they were restricted when it came to voip.

 

[ben dover]

Me too...
but I still don't see the benefit unless it's a big company making 100+ calls a day.
I Guess banks will possibly jump on the band wagon one day, When they wake up or their IT departments rather.
Converting to VOIP can also be a costly exercise! That is what is holding most companies back.

 

[Leftfoot]

I know a few IT mangers in Canada and while initially going headlong into VOIP many have gone back to traditional telephony. Some of the reasons were extra cost for high data rate networks and general inconsistancy with the operation of the systems.

 

[AirWolf]

Considering Telkom's "efficient" service when it comes to lines that are down (well all service in general) can you really blame SA companies for not taking a leap of faith?

 

[kilos]

It kind of a surprise to me - I always heard they were restricted when it came to voip.

Dubai Internet & Media City have a massive Cisco VoIP PBX systems that connects to the local Telco Etisalat, yes VoIP is not allowed to international destinations and Etisalat notorious proxy server is blocking access to Skype.com for downloads as well as soft ladies sites of course. The dU Proxy server (2nd telco provider)is also operational not yet so restrictive yet.