A major force
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Fiji Posts & Telecommunications Limited is set to become a major force in telecommunications in the South Pacific with the signing of a $lO million, five-year contract with the Nippon Electric Company (Australia), The contract gives Post & Telecom the regional distribution rights for NEC’s NEAX 2400 PABX, key telephone systems, “Voicepoint” audio conferencing product and training programs.
The contract is one of the largest to be let by NEC in the South Pacific and followed a thorough search by NEC for a regional partner well versed with the use of advanced telecommunications equipment and technology.
The NEAX 2400 PABX is a private automatic branch exchange and is one of the most sophisticated business telephone systems currently available on the market. It is loaded with a host of features including the facility for voice recorded messages, telephone conferencing between three or more parties, private networking between company branches, cost cutting measures including routing calls via the cheapest route possible and automatic re-dialling of calls.
Key telephone systems are for small business organisations but have many of the features of the NEAX 2400.
“Voice Point” audio conferencing is a service using equipment that allows fuller conference sessions between two or more Fiji locations and one international connection.
Many of Fiji's largest businesses and government departments have or will install NEC’s sophisticated NEAX 2400 PABX providing the country’s key private and public sector organisations with state-of-the-art telecommunications services.
Vital services such as the Fiji Police and NLTB have already installed the NEAX 2400 and will benefit from having the world’s most advanced telecommunications systems linking them to the community. They will be joined in the near future by Nadi Airport and the Ports Authority.
The University of the South Pacific, the ANZ Bank, the Westpac Banking Corporation and Suncourt Hardware and Rewa Dairy have already installed the sophisticated PABX system to boost their level of service.
Under a “technology transfer” agreement, technicians from Fiji Posts & Telecommunications Limited will be trained alongside NEC Australia’s engineers at the Company's Australian manufac turing site at Mulgrove, Victoria.
The contract also provides an opportunity to upgrade the skills of Post & Telecom’s sales staff, local engineers and technicians
through NEC’s training workshops in Fiji.
Thirty FPTL employees have already undergone NEC’s training program in Fiji to ensure they are able to provide the high level of installation, maintenance and service skills NEC Australia demands.