Happy New Year

To all our customers, suppliers and friends, wishing you happy and prosperous 2008!

Thank-you for your support

At RedButton we are looking forward to a year in which we bring even more value to our customers, not only in terms of the quality and convenience of our offering, but also in terms of an exciting new product line. Thank-you for your support in 2007 and we are looking forward to serving you in 2008.

New trends?

When it comes to Wi-Fi in 2008, we'll no doubt continue to see it becoming more ubiquitous. For example have you heard of the Toyota A-Bat? It's a hybrid concept vehicle that appears to sport an internal Wi-Fi access point, all you'd need is some backbone technology (e.g. 3G, WiMAX) to turn your A-Bat into your private local area network or mobile hotspot. Lets see if 2008 will see such vehicles going into production.

Special mention

In particular we would like to extend our best wishes to all WAPA members with regards to the license conversion process at ICASA. WAPA is an a set of backbone (technically called wide area network) wireless Internet service providers who have for many years provided Internet services to end-users and service providers such as ourselves. In a nutshell, 2008 should be the year in which most WAPA members will know whether they will be licensed to provide backbone Internet connections.

To delve into further detail, WAPA members, who all have VANS licenses, have been informed that their licenses are to be converted to a type of license (ECS) that is not sufficient for providing backbone Internet connections, an ECNS license will be required. ICASA, the communications authority of South Africa, recently announced that it

has decided that VANs will in the first instance be converted to ECS and that a competitive process will be followed in respect of granting VANS the right to acquire ECNS as per the Ministerial Directive. An Invitation To Apply (ITA) to this effect will be issued in January 2008. Consequently a separate matrix for VANS (ECNS applications) will be published once interested parties have responded to the ITA and submissions have been evaluated. The Authority will hold public hearings in March 2008 in order to fast track this process