Nokia has announced its spouse Liquid Intelligent Technologies volition supply Nokia fibre technologies to PayGoZo for offering economical, uncapped and ultra-fast net arsenic portion of The Kayamandi Township Fibre Project. The archetypal impervious of conception phase, which was launched successful September 2022, volition spot much than 15,000 radical connected successful the Kayamandi township successful Stellenbosch successful the Western Cape state successful South Africa.
The concern comprises Nokia arsenic the exertion provider, Liquid Intelligent Technologies arsenic Nokia’s partner, and PayGoZo arsenic a caller innovative Internet Service Provider successful Stellenbosch. The squad worked intimately to usage the accepted Nokia Fibre-to-the-X (FTTX) solution successful an ingenious mode to supply a highly scalable solution for The Kayamandi Fibre Project. Users are offered unlimited data, but connected a time-based and pay-as-you-go pricing scheme, which is some much outgo effectual and idiosyncratic affable than mobile information solutions.
Nokia is providing some fibre entree nodes for the fibre speech and fibre modems to link a WiFi web crossed the full township. Integration services wrong the PayGoZo web volition beryllium supported by Nokia’s Access Management System. Nokia’s ISAM FX optical enactment terminals (fibre entree nodes) were selected for their quality to present precocious bandwidth services to a ample fig of users and their casual upgrade capableness successful enactment with the increasing demand.
Digitisation of concern services, education, healthcare and amusement continues to accelerate globally. However, much than 3 cardinal radical inactive deficiency net access, putting them astatine a monolithic disadvantage. The precocious outgo of mobile information hinders equitable entree to the net for each segments of society. The Kayamandi Fibre Project aims to code this by utilizing a mode to connection net astatine economical rates.
Deon Geyser, CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, South Africa, says, “In the past 2 decades, Liquid has been moving tirelessly to guarantee that each idiosyncratic successful Africa has entree to high-speed connectivity. Partnering with Nokia to enactment PayGoZo successful bringing the Kayamandi task to beingness is simply a reiteration of our commitment. This is 1 of our archetypal projects successful utilizing innovative exertion to bring entree to fibre connectivity to the masses. We look guardant to partnering with Nokia to replicate the occurrence successful different distant locations successful South Africa and the wider continent.”
Rich Henn, CEO of PayGoZo, says, “We are committed to providing high-quality yet optimally-priced net to link those who are incapable to spend costly mobile network-based internet. Collaboration with Nokia and Liquid Intelligent Technologies has helped america good tune our approach, and we look guardant to rolling retired the task beyond the archetypal aviator phase, truthful that much radical successful Kayamandi tin commencement benefitting from low-cost internet.”
Naveed Kashif, caput of Southern Africa Market at Nokia, says, “Fibre is by acold the champion connectivity solution for South African townships, providing affordable and uncapped net indispensable for location workers and learners. We are arrogant to beryllium partnering with Liquid and PayGoZo connected this important task which adopts an innovative attack to supply affordable net without compromising connected the quality.”
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