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TechnoMag Staff.
Office communication solutions provider, Standard Global Communications (SGC), recently donated Voice Over internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment to the National Blood Service Zimbabwe. The VoIP equipment is intended to enable NBSZ to make free branch to branch calls, thereby helping reduce its telephone bill by 50 percent as most of calls made are within the branch network.

Apart from reducing telephone costs the VoIP equipment will also increase operation efficiency telephonically as, all telephone extensions, at all NBSZ branches nationwide will now be able to call each other without going to telephone network operators.

Speaking at the VoIP equipment handover ceremony, SGC chief executive, Mr Cornwell Nemberi said, “We were approached by Mr Sipho Bulle, a board member of NBSZ Bulawayo Region, to help find a solution to reduce telephone costs.

“As a responsible, corporate citizen, Standard Global Communications accepted the challenge and saw it necessary to donate telecoms equipment to one of Zimbabwe’s most important institutions, the National Blood Service, as part of our social responsibility, to invest the community that we operate in”.

The VoIP Gateways were installed by Standard Global Communications, in conjunction with NBSZ’s IT department and were integrated into the existing legacy PABXs that NBSZ has, turning the legacy PABXs into Internet Protocol (IP).

This VoIP technology enables free calling among branches just like calling an office extension.

In other words, all NBSZ branches nationwide will be technically an extension of each other, which supports free communication among staff members.

The VoIP Gateways are expected to help reduce office telephone costs by 30 to 50 percent and also make it much easier for NBSZ staff to communicate with each other, as all staff members in at all NBSZ branches nationwide, will now be able to call each other as an extension.

The technology exchange between SGC and NBSZ will ensure that the NBSZ IT Department has capacity to tackle any technical issues that arise.

The total value of the donated VoIP Gateways, deployment and training costs is $6 000.

Mr Nemberi also challenged other corporate organisations to also make donations in cash, kind or in blood and help fill the blood banks at the National Blood Service Zimbabwe to save lives.

The handover ceremony was attended by National Blood Service Zimbabwe Staff, Management and Board Members.

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