We make telecoms better
Leadership|December 2019/January 2020
FACT brings cutting edge tech to Africa
We make telecoms better

With the evolution of technical services and demands from regional operators, FACT has introduced new services to connect people, things, processes and knowledge to enable collective awareness, efficiency and better decision making through Remote Intelligence and Control.

Industrial business challenges include evolving market dynamics, technical complexities and the pressure to perform with less resources. To overcome these challenges, we are leading and driving Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and strategies for customers in telecommunications along with smart energy management (advanced metering infrastructure), transportation and logistics, and datacentres.

The broad mission is to transform and modernize existing legacy, isolated systems along with fractured operations into a highly agile, unified software-defined operations yielding lower OpEX and higher efficiency through central command and control functions.

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