Itec has bought a majority stake in licensed telecoms provider, Songimali Communications, which will allow the office automation and communications group to offer voice, video and data services.<\/p>\n
Songimali holds Individual Electronic Communications Services (i-ECS) and Individual Electronic Communications Network Services (i-ECNS) licences and serves over 400 existing customers.<\/p>\n
The company is a partner to a range of the best upstream operators and telecoms equipment vendors in South Africa, including MTN, Vodacom, Telkom, Mitel and Polycom.<\/p>\n
The deal positions Itec as a tier one provider, which, through its recently formed division Itec Communications, will offer customers a full range of communication technologies.<\/p>\n
Services will range from voice over IP; video and hosted cloud services; MPLS network services; and converged GSM and fixed-line services.<\/p>\n
“Itec will now be able to offer its 18,000 customers access to high-quality converged voice and data solutions that it controls, manages and develops itself,” the company said in a press statement.<\/p>\n
“Itec has played on the periphery of the telecoms market as a reseller of solutions from other service providers for a couple of years and we have learnt a great deal about what the market needs in the process,” said Itec COO, Ryan Miles.<\/p>\n
“The time is now ripe for us to enter this space with a solution that we own and drive ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n