Is Load Shedding affecting your Bottom Line?

27 February 2024 | Ivana | Partner Content

The continued power disruptions have caused widespread mobile network signal degradation and, in some cases, a complete collapse of network services.

The repeated power disruptions result in infrastructure failure on the cell towers, leading to connectivity and service disruptions. This is very problematic for retailers, merchants, restaurants, and businesses that rely on 3G connectivity for Point-of-Sale trading.

Consider Satellite Internet

Satellite networks offer a unique and attractive solution to this problem. By their very nature, satellite networks are extremely reliable and immune from terrestrial power disruptions or physical damage to infrastructure. This is because satellite communication networks require only a terminal to be installed on the client’s premises. This then communicates with a central gateway (or teleport) via the satellite in the sky. The satellite network gateway is then connected to the Internet to provide the user with broadband and business data connectivity services.

Smart Satellite Services, like Twoobii managed by Q-KON, incorporate advanced quality-of-service features and additional security measures to enable integration with merchant credit card readers and Point-of-Sale trading systems. Twoobii is also the only certified solution for a leading African e-commerce bank with direct integration from their card machines to the core financial network.

Twoobii’s Satellite Internet offers:

· 100% uptime, proving to be highly reliable
· Immunity from power disruptions and damaged infrastructure
· Advanced quality-of-service features
· Additional security measures
· Can complete card transactions in under 1 second, while maintaining near-perfect network availability

Twoobii can provide retailers, merchants, restaurants, and businesses with a simple one-stop option for reliable trading through load shedding, vandalised or damaged infrastructure challenges and bad weather!

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