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Vox Telecom: New products, new ideas
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 27 July
2007
Vox Telecom, previously known as DataPro,
is planning to launch innovative products and share profits with their subscribers and resellers in a new ‘profit
sharing’ concept.
Innovative products…
DataPro ‘…has recently announced the soft launch of their first voice products which
will compete directly with Telkom’s
current voice offerings. Unlike other VoIP offerings in the market – like Skype, Broadband Talk from MWEB or
iBurst’s iCall – Vox Telecom is interconnecting directly with Telkom, Vodacom, MTN, Cell
C, Internet
Solutions, Verizon Business and others. Vox Telecom points out that this
allows for better Quality of Service and more control over the service’ (Vox Telecom readies to shake up the
local telecoms space, MyBroadband, 19 July 2007).
In other words, Vox Telecom’s first VoIP offerings or voice products will for one offer
subscribers a better quality service than the likes of Skype, Broadband Talk, etc.
Can we expect to see huge savings over Telkom’s voice call
rates?
Yes, if we take Vox Telecom’s word for it…
‘Apart from promising savings in the region of 30% over Telkom’s voice call rates,
users have the option to still use the Telkom service by simply dialing #9. The company is further planning
international call packages for South Africans with family in countries like the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand
with international call rates for as low as 15c per minute’ (VoxTelecom readies to shake up the local telecoms
space, MyBroadband, 19 July 2007).
In other words, Vox Telecom is planning to offer us much cheaper voice calls
than Telkom.
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