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26 September 2011

Telkom serves up more data

Following a successful three month free blended data promotion, Telkom today announced that the data caps for the TelkomInternet AllAccess products would be permanently increased at no additional charge.

In July this year the Company announced a promotion to its data hungry customers in which the monthly data cap on the 1 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess increase to 5GB; the 5GB TelkomInternet AllAccess to 10GB and the 9GB TelkomInternet AllAccess to 20GB.

This promotion was well received by customers who enjoyed free additional data usage for three consecutive months.

However, with the promotion drawing to a close at the end of September, Telkom is permanently increasing the monthly DSL blended data cap on the following products: 3GB TelkomInternet AllAccess will increase to 4GB; 6GB TelkomInternet AllAccess will increase to 8GB and the 10GB TelkomInternet AllAccess will increase to 16GB.

This new offer will not affect the free local data allocated on these packages. Telkom customers on these packages will automatically receive the increase data cap from 1 October with no additional charge.

Telkom's Managing Director of Consumer Services and Retail, Manelisa Mavuso said, "We are aware of the ongoing appetite South Africans are developing for data and Telkom is gearing up to meet that demand."

"This offer is just another way TelkomInternet would like to reward our valued customers for their continuous support," he added.

Telkom also highlighted that for R20 more 1GB TelkomInternet AllAccess customers currently paying R79 for their service can upgrade to the 4GB TelkomInternet AllAccess package for only R99 per month.

Additional Information:

The DSL blended data will automatically be added to the following packages on 1 October 2011 at no additional charge:

  New data caps
Current data cap and name 1 October 2011
1 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess 1 GB (Unchanged)
3 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess 4 GB
6 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess 8 GB
10 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess 16 GB

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

 OR

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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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.

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