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15 July 2011

Free Broadband: Contract Free

Telkom is offering home and small business customers the opportunity to test its fixed line broadband with the announcement of a free three month trial promotion. With no strings attached this offer is not conditional to any contract subscriptions pre or post the trial period.

Available from 18 July and valid until 15 September, residential customers and small to medium businesses will be granted free subscription to Telkom's Fast Internet with up to 1024kbps ADSL access for three consecutive months.

Customers opting to retain the service after the trial period will pay R395 for the broadband bundle on a month to month basis with the option to opt out at any stage without risk of penalties levied. They also have an option to downgrade or upgrade after the trial.

All the elements of this broadband Internet trial are offered to customers without having to sign any contract. "This is a no commitment promotion as we would simply like to demonstrate the quality of our broadband experience," said Senior Managing Executive for Telkom SA Manelisa Mavuso.

Included in this offer is free landline and DSL installations, free modem, free 3GB email account and free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.

Over the three month trial period customers will receive 5GB of blended data per month to surf locally and internationally hosted websites.

In addition, once the blended data has been depleted customers can look forward to an additional 20GB of local data to surf locally hosted sites.

During the three month trial customers will only be liable for the cost of their Telkom landline rental, call charges and out-of-bundle data costs.

"We are confident that customers will enjoy the speed and quality of fast fixed line broadband," said Mr Mavuso.

"Telkom is offering South Africans a tangible way to experience fixed line broadband to highlight the unique benefits of this technology which has certainly secured its place in today's communications landscape," he concluded.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Pynee Chetty

Senior Specialist: Media Relations

Group Communication

Tel:+27 12 642 1716

Mobile: +27 81 389 7874

Email: chettpr2@telkom.co.za

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Leigh-Ann Francis

Specialist: Media Relations

Group Communication

Tel: +27 12 642 1728

Mobile: +27 81 391 4780

Email: francilm@telkom.co.za

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ABOUT TELKOM:

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We had consolidated operating revenue of R16.8 billion and normalised profit after tax of R1, 683 million for the period ended 30 September 2015. Total assets amounted to R41.9 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R23.5 billion as of 30 September 2015. The group generated normalised free cash flow of R1.4 billion for the period ended 30 September 2015.

As of 30 September 2015, we had approximately 3.3 million telephone access lines in service and 1,030,441 ports connected via MSAN access. We offer business, residential and payphone customers a wide range of services and products, including:

  • fixed-line retail voice services using PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines, including ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) lines, and the sale of subscription based value-added voice services and calling plans;
  • fixed-line customer premises equipment rental and sales services both voice and data needs and these include PABX, Computers, Routers, Modems, Telephone handsets and other ancillary equipment;
  • interconnection services, including terminating and transiting traffic from South African mobile operators, as well as from international operators and transiting traffic from mobile to international destinations;
  • fixed-line data services, including domestic and international data transmission services, such as point-to-point leased lines, ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) services, packet-based services, managed data networking services and internet access and related information technology services;
  • Data Centre Operations includes e-commerce, application service provider, hosting, data storage, e-mail and security services;
  • W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), a 3G next generation network, including fixed voice services, data services and nomadic voice services;
  • mobile communication services, including voice services, data services and handset sales through our mobile navbar-brand called Telkom Mobile;
  •  information and communication services including cloud services, infrastructure services, workspace services, global service integration management and hardware and network equipment sales locally, in seven African countries, the UK and Dubai through Business Connexion Group; and
  • other services including directory services, through Trudon (Pty) Ltd, wireless data services, through Swiftnet (Pty) Ltd.

Convergence is one of our key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for Telkom.  We will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of our mission statement: Seamlessly connecting people to a better life.