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New business ideas: Contact

Posted on 23. Aug, 2006 by Cassandra in Uncategorized

Two new telecoms related business ideas out of South Africa for you to check out:

1. Skaap (meaning ‘Sheep’ in local tongue) is a VOIP telephone service, which is cool if you like to phone your granny in Aussie all the time…while not near a computer.

How it works is that you buy ‘airtime’ through the website,
stipulate which telephone number you will be calling from (can be a cell phone
or a land line) and then once signed up, they will give you a local 086
telephone number to call from your cell or land line. You dial that local
number, you will hear a dialling tone and then you enter your overseas number
followed by a hash. The Skaap software
thingy then switches the call to the VOIP part. [Thanks Tertia]

So – you make an international call to a local number on a normal telephone. Nice sheep.

2. Seth Rotherham (from 2oceansvibe)  brought our attention to a new online service he’s involved with which, believe it or not, is the first of its kind in SA.

Big Time Air Time – allows you to purchase cellphone airtime, online, via your credit card….in three easy steps
Something similar (www.lazycat.co.za) was tried a couple of years back, but the site was cumbersome and the payment options restrictive.

With the state and expense involved with using any form of telecoms in South Africa,  these two new business ideas should be a drop in the ocean when it come to local business opportunties that undercut the bulky corporate monopolies.