Yas Tanzania has launched Yas Business, a unified enterprise brand offering SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, IoT, managed services, and Tier 3 data centre infrastructure.
Yas Tanzania has launched Yas Business, a new enterprise brand that brings its business connectivity and digital solutions under one name. The company says the move sharpens its focus on serving enterprises, SMEs, and public sector institutions.
Yas Business will offer SD-WAN, which is software-defined wide area networking, a way to manage branch networks using software instead of manual router-by-router setup. It also includes cloud connectivity, which is the network links businesses use to reach cloud services reliably.
The company also highlighted IoT services, meaning connected devices and sensors that send data over the network, plus managed solutions, where the telecom runs parts of the customer’s IT and network operations on their behalf. Yas added that it has Tier 3 data centre infrastructure, which is a data centre design level that typically includes redundancy, so maintenance can happen without taking systems offline.
Tanzania’s Minister of State in the President’s Office for Planning and Investment, Prof Kitila Mkumbo, said investments like Yas Business can support productivity and digital inclusion, and called for continued public-private collaboration tied to the country’s Dira 2050 vision.
For Tanzanian SMEs and large organisations, this is another sign that telecoms are competing beyond airtime and basic internet, and are packaging enterprise networking, cloud access, and cybersecurity-related services together.
If Yas can deliver reliable last-mile links and stronger security, it could help sectors like finance, logistics, manufacturing, education, and government digitise more operations. That matters as more business tools move online and downtime becomes more expensive.
The launch also signals a brand and go-to-market push. Yas says it has been recognised among Africa’s strongest telecom brands in the last 18 months, and Yas Business is positioned as the enterprise-facing part of that strategy.
Primary Source: Daily News - Tanzania Standard Newspapers
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