SA smart phone firm receives 50,000 export order for T-Touch

THULES Telecomms, South Africa's home grown product engineering company has received it's first export orders for a total 50,000 units for its ground breaking smart phone, T-Touch mobile.

The orders are from two Ghanaian companies.

In a press statement the company said the first order for 40,000 units had come from an Accra based mobile supplier whose target market are university students with limited disposable income.

Part of the communication from the Accra entrepreneur to Thules Telecomms reads: "l am very certain that the university environment will be a fertile ground for your product  and that the comparatively cheap but durable nature of your product will make it a preferred choice by students in university community."

The statement states that the second order for 10,000 units comes from a mobile phone dealer in Kwashiman-Accra who also alludes to the competitively priced T-Touch mobile as a major attraction.

"The lowest band of T-Touch mobiles retail for between R149-R299 (US$10.50-$21.00), while the smart phones range from R599-R4,999 ($45-$350)" reads the statement.

According to the statement, demand for the T-Touch mobile phone within South Africa itself has grown in great leaps and bounds since Thules Telecomms CEO and founder, Thulani Khoza, went public about the product.

"Demand for our T-Touch mobile phone is already soaring within South Africa," Khoza says. "However, orders from Ghana represent a major breakthrough in our export marketing strategy. We have also received expressions of interest from Angola and other African countries for the T-Touch mobile and for our tablets."

Furthermore, Khoza said he is humbled by positive comments his company constantly receives from people all over the world.

"It is both humbling and gratifying to hear people commending us for being the first South African manufacturer of smart phones and also admiring the quality of our tablets and service delivery," Khoza says. "Those comments inspire all of us at Thules Telecomms to work harder in improving the quality of our products."

Khoza said the top of the range T-Touch mobile has highly developed security features. "For instance if your phone is stolen, the thief can't get into your stored information and you can move that information from the handset when it is not in your possession."

The T-Touch Mobile phones will be formally launched in South Africa in August through a series of road shows.

Thules Telecoms is a product engineering company providing strategy and technology consulting in the field of mobile software application development, web, cyber security, VoIP systems, networking and general ICT consultation. The company has a team of 53 technicians, programmers and Engineers.

Thulani Khoza who founded Thules Telecoms in 2010 is Chairman of Mihloti Holdings Management which specializes in project management, telecommunications infrastructure, transport and property investment.

Khoza's professional qualifications include a BSc Computer Science (BHons) Wits University, Software Engineering (Honours) Nottingham University UK, Graphic Design (Damelin) and (MBA) at the Baker University in California, USA.

Before setting up Thules Telecomms Khoza in 2010 and securing his first contract at Neotel as a technical advisor installing base stations, Khoza worked for various multinational companies in South Africa, including MTN as a programmer and SABC as systems analyst.