Partnership agreement provides O-Tel Telecom presence in Southern Cape

O-Tel Telecom today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with George-based eTime, a broadband Internet and digital telephony service provider, to provide voice and hosted PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) services to home users and enterprises.

After a few years reselling VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) using the Vox Telecom network, eTime decided to move up to a higher level and begin to take control of its large base of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) customers.

Industry leader with years of experience

“We regard O-Tel as an industry leader with years of experience and the ability to do more than the average VOIP service provider,” said Jan Oosthuizen, CEO of eTime. “Our numbers were successfully ported to O-Tel in spite of a few unforeseen challenges that were dealt with in a very efficient and professional manner.”

"O-Tel is excited to have eTime on board. We have recently been welcoming many resellers from other VOIP providers, as so then as former PABX and LCR resellers, attracted by O-Tel's ability to provide a high quality and stable VOIP service, a full turnkey solution to begin deploying services without warning without capital investments, no commitments, and providing full billing control,” comments Mohammad Patel, CEO of O-Tel Telecom.

It is widely reported the PABX industry is undergoing difficulties as the innovation seems to be reaching the end of the road.

Telephone 2.0 is the newest trend among the enterprise fraternity, who want an increase in productivity and reduction in telecommunication costs by using hosted PBX and voice over broadband.

“O-Tel's VOIP infrastructure and business model has been designed and is ready to accommodate the thousands of stranded LCR and PABX specialists due to the nevertheless defunct industry. As a result, many of the country's VOIP providers remain no longer competitive afterwards their profits have been slashed. The domino effect has caused high network failures, low commission income for the resellers, and major financial losses to the service providers. Furthermore losses are expected once the new interconnect rate kicks in on 1 March 2011. O-Tel is safeguarded from these negative effects due to visionary strategies implemented since 2008,” adds Patel.

The first of its kind in the area

This partnership is the first of its kind in the area, where an influx of enterprises are expected to be knocking on eTime's door. The incumbent's focus and service has recently been less than satisfactory. With number porting nevertheless a reality, customers can nevertheless move their whole telecommunication service over to eTime, ensured of prompt and professional service.

“VOIP was identified as a strong growth point in our area and with the O-Tel product in our service offering, we are ready to take on the big players,” concludes Oosthuizen.

O-Tel is South Africa's fastest growing licensed digital communications company, with an established and stable VOIP infrastructure. Private label services are provided to WISPs, ISPs, IT service providers, PBX installers, and LCR specialists. O-Tel's 'www.1cloud.co.za' is widely regarded as South Africa's premier hosted PBX service.

eTime is one of the largest broadband wireless service providers in South Africa. eTime makes use of proven innovation and successfully implemented this innovation to cover most of the Southern Cape and large areas of Cape Town and the Free State.