{"id":24267,"date":"2012-10-15T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=24267"},"modified":"2012-10-16T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T07:25:33","slug":"vox-ceo-points-to-fibre-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/24267\/vox-ceo-points-to-fibre-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox CEO points to fibre migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vox<\/a> CEO Douglas Reed<\/a> says that the telecommunications group is in the process of moving its business products off ADSL<\/a> solutions onto fibre.<\/p>\n

Vox is an independent telecoms operator, providing voice and data services to the Southern African market.<\/p>\n

The group, which delisted from Alt-X in December, is focused on providing internet connectivity and converged Internet Protocol (IP) services to business customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the ADSL space we\u2019ve always sold other people\u2019s services, and about a year\/18 months ago, we decided to covert that ratio. So typically Vox Telecom had 20% of our services came off our network, 80% we resold,\u201d he said adding that it led to R1.5 billion in turnover.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow what we have done is we have reversed that ratio, so 80% of the products we sell are on our network, which gives us instant access to lowering input costs, so we can be far more aggressive, we can tailor-make, we can provide unique, niche products, and it\u2019s much better for us to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the move \u201chas taken a little bit of investment, a little bit of a change, but we are looking forward to the year\u201d.<\/p>\n

The industry veteran noted that it was time to migrate its business offerings onto a fibre network. \u201cOn our business stuff, we are trying to move all our businesses off ADSL solutions, onto fibre. We think it\u2019s time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite a surprising market this, customers are demanding huge download speeds on their mobile phones and at home, but businesses are quite happy to work on a meg, so we just [have] to re-educate businesses to the 10\/15\/20 meg sizes which is starting to happen now, the fibre prices are coming down\u2026On the business side we are having a massive push to changing everything to fibre,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n

He added that fibre to the home would be “long” and “arduous”.<\/p>\n

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