Neotel plans ‘next leg’ launch in November
According to information received by MyBroadband, Neotel said in recent correspondence that it plans to share “…the milestones that have defined the past few months, enabling us to offer true next generation services to the enterprise market.”
This most likely refers to the launch of their Converged Enterprise Voice and Data products. Neotel confirmed that a function is planned for 15 November, which will be the next leg of the Neotel journey for Enterprise customers, in line with their phased entry in the wider market.
New range of Enterprise services
Neotel promises companies a mix of conventional services like National and International Private Leased Circuits and ISDN Primary Rate Voice services, pure IP services and Ethernet services within Metropolitan Area Networks.
“Neotel will bring a new approach to business communications. In addition to supporting the leased line and voice services traditionally available in South Africa, we will provide converged voice and data services on our carrier grade IP superhighway.”
South Africa’s second national operator points out that it has already launched its Enterprise services, with the first of these, NeoLink – a national leased line product – already offered to a targeted set of large enterprise customers. Neotel has won several major tenders with NeoLink, and is delivering on these contracts.
Neotel’s Head of Strategy, Angus Hay, said that the company has won many new contracts in the Enterprise space over the last few months, and while the details have not been made public yet players like Telkom may be surprised when they learn about these developments.
Late launch
Neotel initially planned to launch their Enterprise services towards the end of 2006, but later indicated that it ‘plans to make available a full suite of next-generation services to its first enterprise customers in the first quarter of 2007.’
The company reneged on some of its launch dates for both its Enterprise and Residential services, something which did not go down well with consumers eager to see Telkom’s monopoly broken.
Many people lay the blame at the door of InfraCo, but Neotel denies that the state owned entity – which provides it with national connectivity – has any influence on them at operational level.
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