Business English Lite | Liquid Telecom seals agreement with Far South Networks リクイッドテレコム、ファーサウスネットワークと提携

2014/07/15

Liquid Telecom seals agreement with Far South Networks リクイッドテレコム、ファーサウスネットワークと提携

African voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom will utilize Far South Networks’ new VOIP technology to provide clients with dependable voice services over its fiber network.

Liquid Telecom owns Africa’s largest fiber network and spans 17,000 km in 12 countries. They include Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2013, Liquid acquired its network in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda from Altech, a South African firm.

The new service went through field tests in Zimbabwe in September 2013 and will be launched widely in August 2014. The company has so far spent $350 million on its Internet network.

Liquid’s innovative voice service provides digital call quality over the company’s fully owned and administered fiber network. The company is the first to introduce landline video calling in Zimbabwe. Some of Liquid’s clients include banks, retailers and mining houses, which want to connect their African branches or payroll and personnel systems effortlessly.

Key Vocabularies :

acquire [verb] 取得する。（何か）を取得する、所有する, innovative [adj] 革新的な。新しい方法、高度で斬新な, payroll [noun] 給与支払い名簿。会社で働いている人々の一覧および会社が彼らに支払うことを約束した金額, field test [noun] 実施テスト。製品または装置が使用される環境で行われるテスト, effortless [adj] たやすい、容易な。ほとんどまたは全く努力が必要ないこと,

Quiz

本文の内容や単語について問う問題です。問題は全部で5問あります。是非チャレンジしてみて下さい。

1. It wants to provide its customers better voice services.

2. It intends to copy Far South’s services.

3. It wants to replace its own services.

4. It aims to take over the clients of Far South Networks.

1. Far South Networks.

2. Econet Wireless.

3. Altech.

4. Liquid Telecom.

1. $350 billion.

2. $350 million.

3. $3 trillion.

4. $35 million.

1. Customer.

2. Manager.

3. Head.

4. Worker.

1. Time.

2. Speed.

3. Extent.

4. Connection.

1. It offers digital call quality over its fiber network.

2. It provides training to telecom companies in Africa.

3. It offers new techniques to make calls from cell phones.

4. All of the above.

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Liquid Telecom seals agreement with Far South Networks リクイッドテレコム、ファーサウスネットワークと提携

Quiz

1.
According to the article, how will Liquid Telecom utilize Far South Networks’ technology?

2.
Which company introduced landline video calling in Zimbabwe?

3.
According to the article, how much has Liquid spent so far on its Internet network?

4.
African voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom will utilize Far South Networks’ new VOIP technology to provide clients with dependable voice services over its fiber network.
In the above sentence, what does the word client mean?

5.
Liquid Telecom owns Africa’s largest fiber network and spans 17,000 km in 12 countries.
In this sentence, what is the meaning of span?

6.
Based on the information in the reading, what does Liquid’s new ultra-modern voice service provide?

Liquid Telecom seals agreement with Far South Networks リクイッドテレコム、ファーサウスネットワークと提携

Quiz

1. According to the article, how will Liquid Telecom utilize Far South Networks’ technology?

2. Which company introduced landline video calling in Zimbabwe?

3. According to the article, how much has Liquid spent so far on its Internet network?

4. African voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom will utilize Far South Networks’ new VOIP technology to provide clients with dependable voice services over its fiber network.In the above sentence, what does the word client mean?

5. Liquid Telecom owns Africa’s largest fiber network and spans 17,000 km in 12 countries.In this sentence, what is the meaning of span?

6. Based on the information in the reading, what does Liquid’s new ultra-modern voice service provide?

1.
According to the article, how will Liquid Telecom utilize Far South Networks’ technology?

2.
Which company introduced landline video calling in Zimbabwe?

3.
According to the article, how much has Liquid spent so far on its Internet network?

4.
African voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom will utilize Far South Networks’ new VOIP technology to provide clients with dependable voice services over its fiber network.
In the above sentence, what does the word client mean?

5.
Liquid Telecom owns Africa’s largest fiber network and spans 17,000 km in 12 countries.
In this sentence, what is the meaning of span?

6.
Based on the information in the reading, what does Liquid’s new ultra-modern voice service provide?