Vodacom Business goes to market
Vodacom has recently launched its first tier ISP division, Vodacom Business, promising to shake up the local telecoms space with innovative converged services solutions.
Vodacom Business did not wait long to get to customers with offerings, and has already made its leased line and MPLS VPN services commercially available to the market.
The company has also begun installing last-mile fibre tails into key customer sites for connectivity via their metro fibre backbone into their facilities in Midrand.
“Some of our hosting services have also gone live and we have customers making use of these services already,” said Dot Field, Chief Communications Officer of the Vodacom Group.
ADSL & WiMax around the corner
In April Vodacom Business will launch ADSL, WiMax, Microwave, and Fiber services.
“Vodacom's WiMax network is ready to take to market with the last 25% of the WiMax phase 1 rollout to be completed during the next few days,” said Field.
Initial estimates indicated a March 2008 WiMax launched, but Vodacom said that a commercial launch has had to be pushed out 30 days due to critical CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) supply shortages.
“As soon as adequate quantities of CPE are available, the user trials will kick-off within the next few weeks,” Field concluded.
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