Types of telephone lines, phone lines, landlines available in South Africa

How do telephone lines and phone calls work?  

A telephone line, phone line, landline is a phone circuit channel provided on a telecommunication network.
It can be a physical wire such as copper or other types of signaling medium technologies such as fibre, which connects the users telephone apparatus (handset) to a communication telephone network.
A telephone line, phone line, landline transmits electrical impulses which create sound waves as voice, speech.
Today there are many different telephone line, phone line, landline technologies available and here we will give you an overview of the various types of telephone lines, phone lines, landlines supplied by telecommunication companies in South Africa. 

Analogue telephone lines, phone lines, landlines Analogue telephone lines, phone lines, landlines work over a copper cable connection. These lines connect to the providers telephone network to many telephone exchanges located around the country and are supplied by Telkom.  Pricing R275.30 line rental per month. ISDN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) PSTN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines are digital lines that also work over a copper cable connection. These lines allow two simultaneous telephone calls and connect to the providers telephone network to many telephone exchanges located around the country and are supplied by Telkom. Pricing R455.57 line rental per month. PRI telephone lines, phone lines, landlines Primary Rate Interface (PRI) telephone lines, phone lines, landlines are digital lines that also work over a copper cable connection. These lines allow 30 simultaneous telephone calls and connect to the providers telephone network to many telephone exchanges located around the country and are supplied by Telkom.  Pricing R5,745.70 line rental per month. Home telephone lines, home phone lines, landlines We provide a wide range of cost effective telephone line, phone line, landline solutions for a home.  Pricing R86.96 - R259.95 line rental per month. Business telephone lines, phone lines, landlines We provide a wide range of Business telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that are located onsite at the customers premises and used for business purposes. These telephone lines, phone lines, landlines can be a single phone line or multiple phone lines connected to a PABX System, PABX/PBX, Telephone System, Switchboard or Switchboard System.  Pricing R159.95 line rental per month.

Hosted telephone lines, phone lines We provide Cloud hosted telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that are located off-site from the customers premises. These lines work on a voice server located off-site at the telecommunication companies data center.  Pricing R86.96 - R259.95 rental per month. Fibre telephone lines, phone lines, landlines We provide Fibre telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that work over a fibre connection and use SIP protocol voice technology to receive and transmit voice calls over the fibre connection.  Pricing R159.95 line rental per month. GSM wireless telephone lines, phone lines, landlines We provide GSM wireless telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that work over the wireless 4G GSM cellular  network via mobile towers located around the country.  Pricing R86.96 - R259.95 rental per month. VoIP telephone lines, phone lines, landlines We provide a wide range of VoIP telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that work over a data connection and use SIP protocol voice technology to receive and transmit voice calls over the data connection. VoIP (Voice over IP) telephone services use the internet as the basis for call termination. These telephone lines also offer cheaper call rates. Pricing R86.96 - R159.95 line rental per month. Landline, phone line app for cellphones We provide a landline app phone line, landline that has been designed so that you can make and receive landline phone calls via a landline telephone number on your cellphone. Make and receive phone calls on your cellphone, mobile phone device anywhere in South Africa at any time, when using our phone line, landline app.  Pricing R86.96 line rental per month. Telephone line, phone line, landline service provider We are a telecommunications company and a premium telephone line provider of a range of different types of telephone lines, phone lines, landlines in South Africa. We ensure reliable and more affordable priced alternative telephone lines, phone lines to Telkom copper telephone lines, phone lines, landlines. All pricing indicated is exclusive of VAT and subject to change.

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How to determine the type of telephone lines you need

If you have an existing PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System but are not sure what type of telephone lines, phone lines, landlines exist on it, you should be able to find this information on your Telkom account under the telephony detail section which is normally at the top of the 3rd page.

The following explains how telephone lines, phone lines normally appear on a Telkom telephone account:
Analogue switchboard lines - Junction lines
ISDN switchboard lines - ISDN BRI
PRI switchboard lines - ISDN PRI
Any lines not connected to a PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System (such as fax lines), are normally shown as ‘Your Line (s)’.

You can count the number of telephone numbers next to each Junction telephone, phone line in order to determine how many hunting telephone lines, phone lines are connected to your existing PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System.

Once you have this information you can contact us, and we will assist you in determining which type of telephone line, phone line, landline will be a good alternative solution, to replace your existing telephone lines, phone lines, landlines.

More about analogue telephone lines, phone lines, landlines

These are your traditional telephone lines, phone lines, landlines.
Even though they are analogue, they work very effectively when there is no fault on the copper cabling. 

Traditionally most PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System telephone lines, phone lines, landlines provided in South Africa were analogue telephone lines, phone lines, landlines supplied by Telkom.

Today this legacy copper infrastructure is very expensive to maintain, and Telkom is currently discontinuing the use of copper telephone lines, phone lines, landlines.

More about ISDN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines  

These are digital telephone lines, phone lines, landlines that work over a copper cable.

Each ISDN line consisting of two channels, allowing two telephone calls to be made simultaneously. ISDN lines are also called Basic Rate ISDN (BRI).
Direct Dialing In (DDI) is the most significant feature of ISDN lines. DDI allows outside callers to dial directly through to internal extension users, thereby relieving a busy receptionist from having to answer the call first. DDI numbers are available in packets of 20.

Normally, if one converts existing analogue telephone lines, phone lines, landlines to ISDN telephone lines in order to make use of the DDI feature, your main analogue telephone number will change. We do however, have a solution which will allow you to keep your main telephone number and still have DDI on your new ISDN telephone lines. Discuss this with us.
It is not always cost effective to add ISDN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines on small PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System because  ISDN PABX cards for these smaller configurations are a lot more expensive. We recommend that you consider making use of ISDN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines if you require six or more telephone lines, phone lines on your PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System.
Today this legacy ISDN copper infrastructure is very expensive to maintain, and Telkom is currently discontinuing the use of copper telephone lines, phone lines, landlines.

More about PRI telephone lines, phone lines, landlines

These are ISDN telephone lines, phone lines, landlines which consist of thirty channels each, allowing thirty simultaneous calls. 

PRI telephone line, phone line services also work over the copper cabling network, and a service for a corporate telephone line, phone line, landline solution.

These lines are monitored 24 hours a day allowing faults that occur on these lines to be identified and attended to at a much quicker turn around time.

200 DDI numbers are also available to you at no additional cost, with each PRI service. Again, when converting from other types of telephone lines, phone lines, landlines to a PRI your main telephone number will change.
There are however, a number of ways we can assist you:
1.   By applying for a no charge, 3 months automatic diversion of all calls from your old telephone number to your new one.
2.   By activating a message on the old number, informing callers to dial the new one.
3.   By retaining a few of the old telephone lines, so that you can still receive calls coming in on the old telephone number, allowing you all the time you need to make your clients aware of the new telephone number.

Today this legacy PRI copper infrastructure is very expensive to maintain, and Telkom is currently discontinuing the use of copper telephone lines, phone lines, landlines.

More about VoIP telephone lines, phone lines, landlines

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) lines/channels allow a business to make telephone calls, phone calls, landline calls over an internet connection.
There are various products that once can make use of to achieve this on an analogue PABX System, PABX, Telephone System, Switchboard and Switchboard System such as telephone line, phone line gateways that allow VoIP, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
Phone calls can be made over your ADSL line, LTE or fibre internet data connection.

There are two most important aspects to consider when deciding to make use of VoIP telephone lines, phone lines, landlines:
1. The quality of the speech which one is going to get
2. The initial cost outlay required to set up VoIP telephone line, phone line, landline

 Ask us for assistance with which type of telephone line, phone line, landline will be best suited to your business telephony communications.