Africa telecoms market set to grow apace – and CaTS is ready
[Pretoria, 30 November 2010] -
The African telecommunications market is poised for significant growth and this has been highlighted with the recent announcement that telco company, Bharti, has signed a $5 billion outsourcing deal with IBM, whereby Bharti will outsource all their IT to the company.This is according to Johan Grobler, MD of Computer Assisted Telephone Systems (CaTS), one of a number of active business partners for IBM's Lotus Foundations Start Solution – a version of Lotus specifically focused at the small to medium enterprises market section.“IBM is ramping up its business efforts in Africa and we, as an IBM partner, are feeling more bullish about conducting business in Africa, from where 80% of our revenue currently stems. We recently moved into bigger offices in Tanzania after the Bharti/IBM outsourcing announcement, and are in the process of opening offices in Lagos, Nigeria.
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