Reliable telecoms brought to remote locations

l i q Ho l d i n g s i s a d a t a solutions provider for telecommunications. However, it focuses on providing infrastructure to those located in remote areas, out of the reach of traditional infrastructure. It brings remote networks to clients in a high-performance, reliable package, connecting listed companies, corporate clients and SMMEs in remote areas.

Kliq supplies high-speed, reliable, synchronous broadband and voice service, all over the same network. It does this either directly or via crossconnecting with Teraco’s urban head offices. Because of the high cost of optic fibre and the way that it is limited to high-density urban areas, as well as poor 3G and 4G cover and scalability, Kliq has the opportunity of catering to the underserviced corporate market that is using sub-par telecommunications services, or none at all.

Within two weeks, the company was able to construct an entire remote network for a power plant in the Drakensberg spanning 200km, with all the associated towers, power infrastructure and network equipment. “We were able to deliver 50mbps for the client in a timeframe thought impossible. We also supplied the water pipeline project from the Mokolo dam to Lephalale, built by Aveng Grinaker with VPN, broadband and voice services, in areas where no other provider could supply services that could match ours,” says co-founder Erik Oosthuizen.

Oosthuizen (46) was born i n Windhoek, Namibia. While studying towards his BA and bachelor of divinity degree at University of Pretoria, Oosthuizen decided to