Since 2006, IOTEL, Indian Ocean Telecoms, has been working with some of the largest telecommunications companies in the world to route wholesale international voice and SMS traffic to some of the most costly and hard to reach destinations in Africa, the Indian Ocean Region and around the world.
The African continent poses a huge problem for Telecoms companies. Power outages, unstable governments, corruption and safety all make doing business in Africa prohibitively difficult.
Leave it to the experts at IOTEL to help you with your African wholesale voice and SMS needs.
You make the call and leave it to us to make a phone ring in a far-flung corner of the world.
Our clients include Tier 1 Operators, International Voice Consolidators, Calling Card Operators and Call Shops.
Rather than providing an A to Z list of countries, IOTEL focuses on a few niche destinations where it can offer tangible value to its customers.
IOTEL has focused on quality providing high ASR’s and ACD’s at affordable rates.
The advent of VoIP has allowed telephone calls to traverse the globe and follow the path of greatest quality and least price.
In 2016 two-fifths of people in sub-Saharan Africa had mobile phones. Today that figure is much higher.
By 2017 more than 90 percent of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa were covered by 2G networks, but now 3G, 4G and even 5G Networks are being rolled out.
There are now 120 4G networks on the continent.
In many African countries, less than half the population has access to electricity. Solar power and battery power now charge a very large percentage of phones on the continent.
Today Cell Phones have become ubiquitous in Africa.
More than 747 million people have a SIM card connection.
Only approximately 250 million Sub-Saharan Africans have a smart phone making Whatsapp Calling a scarcity.
Mobile internet has however quadrupled from the year 2010.
Mobile money is a common experience in Africa with more than 135 active services in 39 countries and 122 million users.
Bulk SMS
Bulk SMS is still one of the most effective tools of mass communication. IOTEL offer direct interconnects as well as LCR SMS routes to companies sending more than 100 000 messages per month.
Our clients include Debt Collectors, Lead Generating companies and Marketing businesses.
If you need to talk to a large number of clients, talk to IOTEL and let us demonstrate our easy to use platform and reporting dashboards.