With copper theft rife, Songimali saw a market opportunity to offer wireless telecoms services, and ECN was more than willing to help.
Catering effectively to every market sector is very challenging. Often this creates the potential for partnerships to be formed. One such example is the relationship which exists between ECN and telecoms reseller, Songimali. “When ECN started, we had no cost-effective model for servicing smaller customers,” says Andy Openshaw, ECN’s chief commercial officer.
New entrant, ECN, is fighting the good fight to bring improved services, at reasonable costs, to customers.
“In a well-functioning market, competing suppliers are incentivised to reduce costs and innovate with new products and services. Unfortunately the current regulatory roadblock is preventing this from happening and the ultimate loser is the consumer. ICASA has finally issued the new electronic communications licenses.
A general trend is for IP to be adopted as the common protocol of choice for converged next generation networks (NGN). ECN has developed an IP based NGN using a range of technologies including copper wire, fibre circuits, WiMAX and digital microwave. “NGN’s are based on a genuinely innovative set of technologies that are transforming the way businesses communicate. The key to this lies in the difference between what legacy networks and NGN’s have to offer.
