SBS Africa Holdings enhances mobile solutions portfolio with MTNdataFAST

MTN South Africa has appointed SBS Africa Holdings as a reseller for its MTNdataFast high-speed cellular data transfer product offering. The reseller agreement with MTN adds a cellular access offering to SBS Africa's portfolio of mobile solutions and applications.  

“MTN is passionate to enhance the lives and businesses of its customers and improving the retail chain is a vital part of this.  We are confident that SBS Africa Holdings will be a significant partner in this respect,” says Georges Bongi, Group Executive of Marketing and Strategy at MTN.

MTNdataFAST is aimed at the needs of mobile business users that want faster access to the Internet across the GSM network. It is based on a new data bearing technology, called High Speed Circuit Data (HSCD), that offers higher throughput than older circuit switch data (CSD) technologies. 


Anthony Davies - Sales & Marketing Director (SBS Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Georges Bongi, Group Executive of Marketing and Strategy at MTN.

"Mobile business is becoming an increasingly important focus area for SBS Africa. MTNdataFAST complements our range of mobile product and services offerings such as sales, support and installations of Microsoft Mobile Information Server, notebooks and other mobile access devices, and rollout of mobile applications," says Anthony Davies, sales and marketing director at SBS Africa Holdings: 

Davies says that the MTNdataFAST technology supports a range of business applications, from security, IT support and vehicle tracking solutions through to personal productivity tools and field service- and sales-force automation.  

Like CSD, HSCD allocates a user a single core time slot for the duration of each call. Each timeslot has a throughput speed of up to 14,4bps. However, MTNdataFAST also offers users to access to three or four extra time slots to transfer data, depending on factors such as network availability, coverage and applications.  

By using these additional time slots, users will experience faster data transfer speeds (up to 57,6Kbps) and only pay for the use of a single time slot. Billing for the service is calculated at MTN's standard voice rates.  

Dion McClosky, Senior Account Executive at MTN South Africa, says that the reseller agreement builds on a long and multifaceted relationship between SBS and MTN. SBS Africa is one of MTN's IT services suppliers, and is also a reseller of MTN's corporate Internet access offerings.    

"MTNdataFAST allows users to send and receive any data from real-time moving pictures to spreadsheets across the cellular phone to a laptop or PDA up to six times faster than older cellular data technologies.  We have focussed on making the technology as easy to use as possible for customers that are familiar with dial-up Internet connectivity,”  said McClosky. 

MTNdataFAST is supported by a range of Nokia and Ericsson handsets. MTN users will be able use roaming facilities with more than 30 international networks that support HSCSD roaming.

   

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