Wananchi Telecom chief operating officer Tony Wood at the Stanley Hotel,
Nairobi on May 4, 2015. The company has diversified its range of fibre
optic products to support the country’s growing small and medium
enterprises with products, dubbed SimbaBiz. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU
Wananchi Telecom has diversified its range of fibre optic
products to support the country’s growing small and medium enterprises.
Company
Chief Operating Officer for Kenya Tony Wood said the products, dubbed
SimbaBiz have low-cost Internet and malware protection. The idea is to
cash in on investment in fibre and pass on the savings to customers.
“SME’s
don’t always have the IT skills and resources to be able to compete
online effectively, so, these product bundles allow them to market
themselves globally,” Mr Wood said in Nairobi yesterday.
The
package is delivered on the firm’s fibre infrastructure that provides
triple play services — voice, Internet and television services linked to
businesses using a single cable.
SimbaBiz comes in three packages of eight, 16 and 32 megabytes per second Internet speed.
They
contain web hosting, domain name, Internet protocol (IP) telephony,
cyber security threat management, cloud disaster recovery, TV and free
conference call.
Wananchi Telecom
fibre infrastructure has been completed in Nairobi and is being rolled
out in Mombasa, with plans to expand to the remaining 45 counties in the
course of the year.
The company has
invested more than Sh2 billion in its grid in the past few years, laying
a 2,000-kilometre fibre network that it uses to offer services on Zuku.
Through
SimbaNet, the firm’s provider of telecommunication services, there are
plans to capture the East African Market with specific interests in
SMEs, government and NGOs.
The product has been in the market for 18 months before its official launch, with 2,000 customers connected.
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