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Decotey

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Will IS still offer voice like they promised if they cannot now lay down their own infrastructure?
 
Of course. They will offer VOIP over Telc*nt's lines as they offer their other services.

However, I expect that Telkom will deliberately screw with IS's QOS in order to derail them as much as possible.
 
sweet can't wait.
Im a bit confused though, can u make a call to a normal landline from voip?
 
Decotey said:
sweet can't wait.
Im a bit confused though, can u make a call to a normal landline from voip?
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Only after Telkom has fought it tooth and nail through the courts for the next 5 years. Technically it could be done tommorow ...
 
Today is the day, but take my word for it, you wont see anything soon...
 
hArTh said:
However, I expect that Telkom will deliberately screw with IS's QOS in order to derail them as much as possible.
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Actually, on the IS MPLS network, it's pretty hard for Telkom to screw with the QoS. They can, of course, keep digging up the lines, or meddling with the Benmore exchange, etc. Anyone noticed an increase in IS Internet outages recently. Conspiracy theorists: speculate away.
 
GimmeMore said:
Are there any members on the forum that has played around with the technology?
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ERm, what technology? VoIP? It's been prevalent in the enterprise market in SA for a long time now.

Residential VoIP - products like Skype and Pulver's Free World Dialup both work with mixed success depending on your bandwidth and who you're calling.

It's likely that IS will offer an IP-Centrex typ of service, where they host the IP PBX and the associated services (AutoAttendant, VoiceMail, etc) and the enterprise just makes us of IP handsets or analogue adapters and perhaps has a local gateway in case of link failure.

All you need for this is an IP link to IS with some QoS parameters implemented and you're off.

IS n turn will then peer with international carriers and hopefully mobile carriers to offer least cost routing. You'll also be able to call other users of the service on the IS net without traversing Telkom.

Pretty exciting stuff if the business model works out well.
 
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