Hot on the heels of its launch, Itec Telecoms has entered into a commercial relationship with Transtel that will see the company roll-out corporate telecommunications solutions for its customers. This relationship empowers Itec Telecoms with a range of enterprise telephony solutions catering for IP systems, call centre, least-cost routing and digital handset functionality and requirements.
These solutions are scalable to any business size and coupled with a host of additional management functionality such as call usage patterns and cost analysis are designed to provide cost-effective communications to the customer organisation.
Itec Telecoms is also procuring a number of premium branded Private Branch Exchange (PBX) products and convergent business telephone systems fashioned to deliver an advanced level of functionality for businesses of every size and profile.
Owing to Transtel`s procurement muscle and vendor relationship, Itec Telecoms is able to procure these products competitively and pass on the savings to the end-customer. Through Transtel, Itec Telecoms will be able to deliver voice and data services as well.
"We are extremely positive about the potential this relationship - the culmination of discussion over the past 12 months - presents for both companies. We believe Itec Telecoms is particularly well positioned given its national dealer network and 18 000 corporate customers," says Karl Socikwa, CEO of Transtel.
Launched just three weeks ago, Itec Telecoms is a joint venture between South Africa`s fastest growing office automation company, Itec, and Tiyende Telecommunications, a BEE telecoms company spearheaded by one of the industry`s most prolific figures Eddie Funde, that intends on becoming the country`s premier sales and marketing distribution channel, providing "converged, holistic and simple" telecoms products and services to the corporate market.
Says Antony Stafford, CEO of Itec Telecoms: "Our relationship with Transtel enables us to deliver customer-specific solutions designed to meet the current demand for lower cost communications and the convergence of voice and data over corporate networks with the support of optimal service levels and world-class carrier infrastructure and equipment."
Transtel is the telecommunications provider of Transnet and operates the largest private telecommunications network comprising cable, microwave radio, fibre optic links and satellite terminals, in Africa. Alongside Eskom, Transnet is part of the 30% State-owned enterprise (SOE) shareholder block in the second national operator (SNO), touted for launch in the first quarter of 2006.
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