Welcome to the roundup of the top telecoms news for resellers, week 14. This week’s top news is featured from DaneAsia Consulting, Yeastar, MicrosoftTeams, ICASA and Huge Networks.
How vendors can manage channel partners through Covid-19 crisis
When assessing your partner ecosystem, it’s crucial to realise just how important they are to your business today and how important they will also be 5-10 years from now. The partner ecosystem is a key asset and a significant investment to most vendors, with years spent selecting, curating, developing and supporting such a network.
Therefore, vendors must think about how to preserve and protect this ecosystem to ensure a strong network exists once the situation normalises and customer demand picks up again.
How to Adapt Your Customers to Remote Working, The Right Away
Following the past weeks of ongoing development of Coronavirus, we have witnessed a surging demand for work-from-home/remote working solutions and we believe you did too.
Social distancing and public health concerns are forcing businesses worldwide an emergency shift to remote/home working patterns. And companies are scrambling to adjust their network and communications system so as to keep distributed workforce connected and maintain business continuity in the short or long term.
Microsoft Celebrates 3 Years of Teams With Enhancements
Microsoft is blowing out the birthday candles for its team collaboration platform, Teams, and its users are getting the presents — new capabilities, integrations, and offerings.
Network licence fee increases announced
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has announced a 4.1% price increase for all communications network and broadcasting licences in South Africa, including radio frequency spectrum licences.
ICASA stated that its price increases were based on the Consumer Price Index. The average CPI for 2019 was 4.1%, according to Stats SA.
Wireless open-access network for South Africa – Here is ICASA’s plan
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has published its plan to license an open-access wireless network for South Africa.
This follows a period of public consultation which ICASA kicked off with an information memo explaining its plan for licensing 4G and 5G spectrum in South Africa.
South Africa’s Smaller Telecoms could be at Risk from Larger Companies
Call blocking by South Africa’s biggest network operators is negatively impacting many local telecoms customers who are finding they cannot always successfully complete phone calls.
This is according to Anthony Engelbrecht, Technical Director at the independent telco, Huge Networks. He explains that some clients of SA’s many Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telecoms networks such as Huge Networks, Connection Telecoms and dozens of others are increasingly finding that calls they place are not reaching the intended telecoms user.
