In the week South African cyberspace was given an area code (O87), the
country's first report on wireless broadband offerings was released and the
cheapest asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) connection was
announced.
The suffix 087 was allocated for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
numbers by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa),
effectively allowing calls routed through the Internet to connect with the
traditional tele-coms infrastructure.
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