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South Africa is Taking a Regional Lead Role in the Convergence of Telecommunication and Information Technologies
DUBLIN, Ireland --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a264a6/south_africa_con) has announced the addition of the "South Africa - Convergence - VoIP NGN & Digital Media" report to their offering.
With its relatively well developed and diverse infrastructure, South Africa is taking a regional lead role in the convergence of telecommunication and information technologies with the media and entertainment sector, promising reductions in telecommunication costs and better availability of information and services. The legalisation of VoIP Internet telephony in 2005 marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the country's telecoms landscape. Billions of Dollars are being invested into IP-based Next-Generation Networks (NGN) capable of delivering converged services more efficiently. ISPs are turning into phone companies, and vice versa. Both are moving into delivering audio and video content over their networks, while in turn the traditional electronic media carriers are discovering the potential of their infrastructure for telecommunications service delivery.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Synopsis
2. VoIP telephony
2.1 Market overview
2.2 VoIP interconnection and peering
2.3 Major VoIP providers
2.3.1 Storm Telecom
2.3.2 Internet Solutions
2.3.3 Verizon Business SA (formerly UUNet SA)
2.3.4 MWEB
2.3.5 Vox Telecom
2.3.6 iBurst
2.4 Mobile VoIP
2.5 Call centres
3. Next Generation Networks (NGN)
3.1 Telkom SA
3.2 Transtel
3.3 Eskom
3.4 SITA
4. IPTV, Triple Play
5. New broadcasting licences 2007
6. Broadcast signal distributors
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Orbicom
6.3 Sentech
6.3.1 InfoSat
7. Digital media
7.1 Digital TV
7.1.1 Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT)
7.1.2 Digital satellite TV
7.1.3 Mobile TV
7.1.4 High Definition TV (HDTV)
7.2 Video-on-Demand (VoD)
7.3 Personal video recorders (PVR)
7.4 Interactive TV (iTV)
7.4.1 MultiChoice iTV
7.4.2 iTV using SMS
7.4.3 Business TV
7.5 Online media
7.6 Online retail
7.7 Online advertising
7.8 Mobizines
8. Electronic banking (e-banking)
8.1 Mobile banking (m-banking)
8.2 Electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS)
9. Online gambling
10. Related reports
Table 1 - Online and mobile banking customers of four major banks - June 2007
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a264a6/south_africa_con
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