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  • ECN recently hosted its annual Channel Awards evening in January at the Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead. This black tie event is one of ECN’s most prestigious events on the calendar and is attended by invited partners, ECN management and staff.

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  • RLO – Reunert Limited – Voluntary announcement

    RLO – Reunert Limited – Voluntary announcement

    Date posted: Friday, June 10th, 2011

    Electronics and electrical engineering company, Reunert, confirmed that the South African competition authorities yesterday unconditionally approved the acquisition of ECN Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd (“ECN”) by Reunert.

  • Reunert Buys ECN Telecommunications

    Reunert Buys ECN Telecommunications

    Date posted: Monday, March 14th, 2011

    Electronics and electrical engineering company, Reunert, today announced that it is has acquired the business of ECN Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd (“ECN”) for an undisclosed purchase price.

  • ICASA faces operator standoff

    ICASA faces operator standoff

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    In a bid to prevent a dramatic termination rate cut, mobile operators have said recently drafted mobile termination regulations are outside of the law.

  • Itec partners with iConnect

    Itec partners with iConnect

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Itec, a leading provider of telecom and office automation solutions, has partnered with iConnect Telecommunications and ECN Telecoms to offer its customers a set of Internet Protocol telephony (IP) solutions

  • Take Your Number With You

    Take Your Number With You

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Another hurdle to decent telecoms competition and consumer choice has fallen, with the implementation of individual geographic number portability (GNP) starting in earnest on Monday.

  • Interconnect Rates Should be 25c Per Minute

    Interconnect Rates Should be 25c Per Minute

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    According to Alison Gillwald, Director of Research ICT Africa, evidence from a benchmarking study conducted last year for the Namibian regulator to determine their cellular interconnection rates shows that the cost-based interconnect costs…

  • Cheaper Calls at Last

    Cheaper Calls at Last

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    SA consumers, used to high prices for telecommunications, must be rubbing their hands in glee. The cost of broadband and voice telephony has begun falling, in some cases dramatically, as competition finally begins to take effect.

  • High Interconnect Rates: The PPCC and ICASA Independence

    High Interconnect Rates: The PPCC and ICASA Independence

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    ECN attended the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications (PPCC) meeting on interconnection rates and was very impressed by the political will of Parliament to urgently deal with the issue of interconnection rates charged by Vodcaom, MTN and Cell C that are amongst the highest in the world.

  • Cellular Operators Wary On Cheaper Rates

    Cellular Operators Wary On Cheaper Rates

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    CELLULAR operators have responded with caution to a new legal finding that may pave the way to a huge cut in the cost of phone calls. Although their comments are guarded, it seems likely they will take legal action of their own if the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)…

  • Cellphone Users Could Be In For a Hefty Saving

    Cellphone Users Could Be In For a Hefty Saving

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Vodacom and MTN hiked the cost of switching a call from one network to another from 20c a minute to R1,25, a ridiculous rise of 525%. They did it just before Cell C launched, to deter customers from joining the new network.

  • Legal Challenge to High Interconnect Fees

    Legal Challenge to High Interconnect Fees

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    South Africa’s telecommunications costs are among the highest in the world. ECN is committed to strategy aimed at reducing telecommunications costs. The primary reason for such high telecommunications costs is interconnection charges – the charge levied to terminate a call on another network.

  • ICASA Needs To Act, Not Study

    ICASA Needs To Act, Not Study

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    The Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) does not need a market study on interconnect to drop prices, says local telecommunications business ECN. Last month, the regulator released its latest draft regulations on the management of interconnect agreements.

  • Operators Snub Interconnect Concerns

    Operators Snub Interconnect Concerns

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Mobile incumbents have brushed off an industry outcry over high interconnect costs. However, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) has agreed to look into the matter.

  • Namibia Cuts Phone Fees Before S.A

    Namibia Cuts Phone Fees Before S.A

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Lesley Stones – 28 July 2009 – OPPOSITION to the high cost of making a cellphone call from one network to another is rising, with SA now being derided for falling behind Namibia in its prices.

  • Icasa Misses Opportunity To Force Cheaper Call Charges

    Icasa Misses Opportunity To Force Cheaper Call Charges

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    The decision not to lower the fee comes in new regulations issued this week by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). Nyanda called for the interconnection fees to be lowered last month, when he told journalists that regulatory intervention was probably needed.

  • Outrage At License Delay By Minister’s Appeal

    Outrage At License Delay By Minister’s Appeal

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s appeal against the August 29 Altech judgement is merely a thinly disguised attempt to protect the incumbent operators from competition.

  • ECN Blazes Trail for Alternate Telco’s

    ECN Blazes Trail for Alternate Telco’s

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Electronic Communications Network (ECN), a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, has embarked on an aggressive campaign to compel all PABX vendors to unblock calls to numbers prefixed by ’087′.

  • ECN Bags R100m VPN Deal

    ECN Bags R100m VPN Deal

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    ECN, a value-added network service provider, has won a multimillion-rand contract to provide a virtual private network for property developer Bondev Development’s Midrand Estates residential project.

  • ECN Launches Residential Voice, Data Services

    ECN Launches Residential Voice, Data Services

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    ECN, a leading provider of affordable and accessible converged voice and data solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by BONDEV

  • ECN Makes SA Telecoms History

    ECN Makes SA Telecoms History

    Date posted: Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    ECN a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, is the first electronic communications services provider in the market to establish bi-lateral interconnects with Telkom, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C.