Wholesale Telecom Provider

Serving Licensed Operators, Resellers & Rural Broadband Networks. Trusted and licensed since 2005.

OUR HISTORY

ICASA Licensed since 2005

Amatole Telecommunications Services (Pty) Ltd (“Easttel”) was established in 2004 and licensed by ICASA in 2005 as a USAL (Under-Serviced Area Licensee) for the Amatole District in the Eastern Cape. The company has achieved several significant milestones, including being the first to establish a voice interconnect with Telkom (SOC) outside of Vodacom, MTN, CellC, and Neotel, as well as the first to operate a commercial WiMax Wireless Network in the Southern Hemisphere. Our voice services were pioneers in South Africa, driven by VOIP technology using the Vocaltec Solution and Audiocodes Media Gateways.

Today, we operate on a self-developed, in-house platform that includes real-time CDR rating, a billing system, and a fully autonomous reseller self-provisioning and management platform, provided by our sister company, Xono Systems South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Easttel remains deeply committed to supporting rural telecommunications, a responsibility ingrained in our original USAL license, which was converted to an IECS (National) License in 2009. We are particularly honored to have been invited to support the Zenzeleni Network, the only commercially viable, community-owned network in the Mankosi and Zithulele Villages in South Africa. Rural broadband continues to be a contentious issue in the country, where the misconception that “broadband coverage is broadband coverage” persists. However, the true challenge in “Bridging the Digital Divide” lies in addressing the underlying economic disparities.

We are grateful for the ongoing support of our family of licensed operators and resellers spread across South Africa and Southern Africa.

OUR SERVICES

Our solutions to Licensed Operators and Resellers

Voice Solutions

Fibre Broadband

VSat Solutions

Domain & Hosting

Rural Broadband Solutions

Consulting Services