ECN Bags R100m VPN Deal

[ Johannesburg, 13 August 2007 ] – ECN, a value-added network service provider, has won a multimillion-rand contract to provide a virtual private network for property developer Bondev Development’s Midrand Estates residential project. The contract requires ECN to provide the residents of Midrand Estates with voice and data services, and allow for the future deployment […]

ECN Blazes Trail for Alternate Telco’s

Electronic Communications Network (ECN), a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, has embarked on an aggressive campaign to compel all PABX vendors to unblock calls to numbers prefixed by ‘087’. All value-added network service (VANS) providers offering voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services were issued ‘087’ numbers by ICASA. ECN, is one of the first […]

Outrage At License Delay By Minister’s Appeal

[ Johannesburg, 25 September 2008 ] – Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s appeal against the August 29 Altech judgement is merely a thinly disguised attempt to protect the incumbent operators from competition. Even worse, it means that Icasa now has an excuse not to issue the new electronic communication licenses that would finally have leveled the […]