Michiel Buitelaar, Managing Director of Smile Telecoms has expressed confidence in the future of voice even as more telecoms users in Africa are embracing data. He added that voice is part of the plans of Smile Telecoms.
He said: “Voice services will increase our sales and our revenues to a reasonable extent. The market for voice will not go down. It cannot go away, everybody wants to make a call.”
He said Smile aims to be seen as high quality, reliable and fast network operator.
“The way we position voice is an example of that and is very well placed and very attractive to both national and international traffic,” he said.
“With LTE which is fundamentally a mobile high network and internet which is very different from GSM and also different from 3G, there is hope. In voice over LTE, we offer voice over a digital carrier. If you make a call on 4G/LTE network, the quality is very high that’s one of our claims. When we say super clear voice, we believe that the quality of our voice will beat the existing benchmark in Nigeria.”
