Huge Software has acquired intellectual property which will enable it to manufacture a fixed cellular router at a significant discount to the current cost of purchasing similar equipment.
Huge Telecom provides a full outbound and inbound telephony service over a GSM last-mile, using fixed-cellular (or fixed-wireless) customer premises equipment. It installs wireless telephone lines based on the GSM standard.
The advantage of this type of service is that it is simple, easy to install and allows for high (first tier) levels of reliability.
Huge Telecom uses the networks of all the South African mobile network operators and therefore in aggregate has access to the most extensive cellular network coverage in South Africa, while making use of devices that are fixed cellular in nature, and is therefore able to offer an unrivalled reliable quality of service.
At the end of its last financial year Huge Telecom had a base of 20 000 installed telephone lines where the connection runs over a fixed cellular router. During the first five months of this financial year (up to 31 July 2014) Huge Telecom, through its business partners, sold in excess of 5 400 telephone lines and thus installed over 5 400 fixed cellular router channels.
At present Huge Telecom is spending between R1-million to R1,5-million a month in the purchase of fixed cellular routers.
Huge Software has now signed an agreement with Deon Marais to purchase the intellectual property that constitutes the SpiderCell FCR. The SpiderCell FCR was originally manufactured by DM Technologies.
There is also an agreement in principle between Huge Software and Marais that a long term relationship is envisaged. It is likely that Marais will assist with engineering and further development, as well as production of the product family/families.
Huge Software has also signed an agreement with Busiraks and John Walker to purchase the intellectual property that constitutes the Xena FCR.
Both the Xena and the SpiderCell are respected brands of fixed cellular router that previously enjoyed significant market share. Unlike FCR units sourced from overseas suppliers, these devices are also completely locally designed, developed, and field tested, and are therefore compatible with the local South African GSM networks and protocols, as well as being ICASA compliant and certified.
