Neotel launches NeoSmart, connecting small businesses with access to lowest call rates in the country

Issued by Brunswick SA for Neotel
Johannesburg, 06 Mar 2013

Neotel announces the launch of South Africa's first mobile smart landline, NeoSmart, a superior product designed to revolutionise business by combining accessibility and connectivity with affordable fixed-line rates.

Commenting on the launch of NeoSmart, Abid Qadiri, Chief of Business Solutions and Excellence at Neotel, said: "We are very excited to announce the arrival of the NeoSmart solution and the country's first mobile smart landline. This innovative new offer shows our commitment to supporting South Africa's growth by making businesses more productive.

NeoSmart delivers constant accessibility through a dual network smartphone to give customers connectivity to their landline and mobile number on a single smart device. This means that businesses of all sizes can take advantage of increased flexibility while drastically reducing their overall telecommunications spend. It means employees will always be connected, in or out of the office," he added.

NeoSmart leverages both Neotel's cost-effective landline rates and newly launched FreeCallZone, which offers free calls to all Neotel numbers within a selected zone. For a fixed monthly fee, businesses can now create their own FreeTalkZone which will allow employees to call each other for free whether they are in the same building, same city or across the country.

FreeTalkZone is a standard voice value-added service, which is bundled with but not limited to NeoSmart and can also be added to any of Neotel's existing post-paid voice services.

NeoSmart is delivered in proud partnership with HTC and the HTC Desire. This Android dual network phone allows for both CDMA (landline) and GSM (mobile phone) technologies. It has an expansive display which provides an amazing viewing experience and Beats Audio to meet every customer's sound needs with deep, authentic sound.

Additional features include:

* Ruim slot - Neotel geographic number
* Sim Slot - mobile GSM number
* EVDO and GPRS capability for mail and calendar
* Captive touch screen, 16M colours
* Full Outlook synchronisation
* Mail browser
* Applications

NeoSmart is available with a choice of monthly package rates, each of which includes free minutes, free data and free SMSs.

For a fixed monthly fee of R49, customers enjoy:

* Free unlimited all day calls between all employees on the FreeTalkZone service, even at peak times.
* The lowest landline to landline rates in South Africa.
* Competitive rates to mobile numbers throughout the day - even during peak times.
* Reduced and controlled telecommunications spend.

For more information on how to switch to NeoSmart, customers can call the Neotel call centre: 0860 Neotel (636853) or visit its Web site at: www.neotel.co.za.

Neotel

Neotel is South Africa's first converged communications network operator. It provides a range of value-added voice and data services for businesses, wholesale network operators and providers and consumers using its pure-IP next-generation network, powered by Neotel's high-performance fibre-optic backbone. Neotel connects the major centres in South Africa to each other and to the world, directly linking the country into Tata Communications' global Tier 1 network. Neotel offers fresh thinking, a creative approach, and flexible solutions for communications in South Africa. Neotel continues to invest in developing a world-class fibre network infrastructure, which now spans Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Port Elizabeth, reaching nearly 9 million consumers.

Neotel offers the lowest landline to landline rates in South Africa.

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