Telikom Limited Signs Cloud PABX Agreement with Amboya
Telikom Limited, PNG’s 100% nationally owned telecommunications company, signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Amboya Investment yesterday, at the Hilton hotel, Port Moresby, to be the exclusive provider of Cloud PABX system in PNG and the Solomon Islands.
The agreement will see Telikom Limited leveraging its telecommunications network and infrastructure to deliver Cloud PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange) or hosted PABX which enable customers to communicate with anyone anywhere on any network at the comfort of your mobile phones. Traditional PABXs and Business Systems are capital intensive and incur high on-going operational cost. Mr. Tepi says “Telikom’s new Partnership with Amboya will eliminate capital cost such as equipment, cabling and the ongoing maintenance and support cost”.
This partnership marks an important event for Telikom Limited and Amboya considering the signing took place at the 27th Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) AGM, Business Forum and Expo.
With this agreement, Amboya’s support gives a new lease of life for Telikom’s fixed (voice) business which is globally declining due to mobile evolution.
Both Amboya and Telikom are committed to delivering high-quality services to their customers and are excited about the opportunities this partnership will bring.
Amboya’s managing director Mr. Amos Goldman said “Ämboya has worked with former Telikom PNG to now Telikom Limited under the new merged entity and have come a long way to understanding the challenges long enough to develop a product that can address the declining trend of the fixed line business’’.
One of the product managers explained how simple the product works. He demonstrated that apps (application) of the Cloud phone will be installed instantly bearing an office land line number - either existing or new number. He further explained that the office/s will have IP (internet protocol) Phones installed on existing infrastructure without the need to build new. He said “with the Hosted PABX in Telikom’s multi-cloud infrastructure, our customers will be able to call or receive calls from anywhere around the world’.
Telikom’s call Centre is running on Cloud PABX and the company is at advance stage of signing up major customers.
Mr. Tepi validated the demonstration show saying “what’s more rewarding is that our customers will save big since calls to their offices will be at local call cost (10 toea) and Telikom also will not incur interconnection cost”.
This exclusive partnership is extended to Solomon Island through its subsidiary company in Bemobile Limited.
IMAGE CAPTION: Amos Goldman (left), Managing Director of Amboya Investments (Israel), and Amos Tepi (right), CEO of Telikom Limited.