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Jasco extends African business footprint

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 03 Feb 2016
Eckart Zollner, head of business development at the Jasco Group, says Kenya is the ideal location for a presence in East Africa.
Eckart Zollner, head of business development at the Jasco Group, says Kenya is the ideal location for a presence in East Africa.

Jasco Group will now have a dedicated presence in Kenya following the announcement that it will set up an office in the East African nation.

NewTelco SA is a joint venture between Jasco and NewTelco. The move to Kenya is aimed at supporting NewTelco's existing customers in the region, including Six Telecoms in Tanzania, says Jasco.

"The East African ICT market is one of the fastest-growing ICT markets on the African continent. It is a well-developed, open and deregulated market that is still attracting much foreign direct investment.

"Kenya is considered to be the gateway into East Africa, and is therefore the ideal location for a presence in the region. We have been operating in the area for around a year now, and we believe that market conditions are ideal for taking our outsourced network services more aggressively to the market," says Eckart Zollner, business development manager at NewTelco SA and the Jasco Group.

According to a statement, NewTelco SA will contract local Jasco resources from the group's East Africa office in Nairobi to service customers in the region. However, as the business grows, the organisation will look at the possibility of employing additional staff to cater for demand.

NewTelco SA will also offer services out of established data centres in Kenya, including the East Africa Data Centre.

"Our presence in Kenya and the East African market as a whole will open the door for companies within the region who wish to operate with a network presence in SA or Europe. In addition, we will create opportunities for network operators from Europe, the United States or other parts of Africa to establish their own presence in this fast-paced market.

"This is an important step in further bridging the digital divide in Africa, and connecting the continent to the world," says Zollner.

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