Dimension Data division Internet Solutions (IS) has won a tender from Airports Company SA (Acsa) to provide “exclusive broadband and telephony” for public telecommunications access in eight of the country’s airports.

IS says the deal will result in it supplying Wi-Fi, fixed-line Internet access, voice-over-Internet Protocol, telephony and Internet café terminals at the airports.

IS GM for Wi-Fi and VoIP Mobile Justin Spratt says a “great deal of work is being done at SA’s top three airports, OR Tambo, Cape Town International and the newly built King Shaka International.”

Points of presence are being installed in all three airports, with King Shaka being the first,” Spratt says. R1m in infrastructure has been installed at the airport, north of Durban.

“Internet workstations will be placed at public areas as well as at the airport lounges for regular travellers,” says Spratt.

IS will also be responsible for connecting Internet and telephony to the businesses operating at the airports. — Staff reporter, TechCentral