no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . april 2014 otel telecoms industry telecommunications founded 1995 headquarters boksburg south africa key people mohammad ashraf patel ceo products sip trunking 1cloud hosted pbx fax over ip tvno class 5 softswitch website www.otelafrica.com otel telecoms also known as ohren telecom and o tel is a south african national telecommunications company based in boksburg . established back in 1995 the company is now known for its infrastructure as a service voip and broadband solutions . 1 2 o tel is a member of south african internet industry body internet service providers association ispa where otel s ceo mohammad patel serves in the senior management committee and holds ecs and ecns telecom licences . 3 4 the company is also a member of wireless access providers association wapa of south africa where o tel s ceo mohammad patel is the deputy chairman . 5 history and overview edit otel telecoms started out in 1995 as part of south african it distributor world computer systems 6 developing voip solutions . the company reached its key milestone in 2009 with receiving ecns license and spun off from wcs division illuder.com . it utilised existing vodacom s 3g and telkom s adsl network in its first telephone line offering . 7 8 since then the company has grown significantly and as of 2011 it offered a set of white label services including sip trunking 1cloud hosted pbx fax over ip centrex cloud call centre terrestrial virtual network operator and leased line service . in 2012 otel telecoms together with compulink business systems training centre launched voip academy a course for voip professionals . 9 10 in august 2013 the company announced expansion of its presence at teraco isando and teraco cape town data centres and its shift from voice transit services to iaas model providing voice over internet protocol and fibre enabled broadband solutions to various licensed operators and resellers across southern africa . 11 references edit ohren telecom overview at businessweek retrieved on 2013 9 30 . otel telecoms profile at itweb retrieved on 2013 9 30 . mohammad patel at ispa retrieved on 2013 9 30 . otel telecoms at ispa retrieved on 2013 9 30 . wapa committee wapa retrieved on 2013 9 30 . world computer systems overview businessweek retrieved on 2013 9 30 . sa s newest teleco launched southafrica.info retrieved on 2013 9 30 . o tel launch telegeography retrieved on 2013 9 30 . o tel telecom launches voip academy telecompaper retrieved on 2013 9 30 . compulink voip solutions in conjunction with otel telecoms at compulink business systems retrieved on 2013 9 30 . otel expands teraco data centre presence telecompaper retrieved on 2013 9 30 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title otel telecoms & oldid 631352727 categories telecommunications companies of south africainternet service providers of africahidden categories orphaned articles from april 2014all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 october 2014 at 18 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view