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8ta announces availability of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa - 8ta today announced that the new BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone 10 is now available through 8ta flagship stores, Telkom Direct Stores, Telkom Express, Edcon and Altech Autopage.

8ta offers a range of data and voice packages to cater for the varied needs of BlackBerry Z10 users. 8ta is uniquely positioned to offer high volume data packages to provide customers with an incredible experience on 8ta while using their BlackBerry Z10 smartphones. The new BlackBerry Z10 will also be available on the popular Unlimited Voice package that offers free calls to all South African cellular networks and fixed line numbers. All 8ta BlackBerry Z10 packages will include unlimited BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger).

8ta deals for BlackBerry Z10 available from the 1 March 2013

• Free Unlimited BBM (including texting and file sharing – photos, video clips and voice notes). New BBM features (video calling and screen sharing) are not part of the unlimited BBM offer. Voice calling is free over WiFi but will form part of the data bundle if over the 8ta network.

Customers can visit www.8ta.com\BlackBerry10 to select the BlackBerry Z10 package that best suits their needs.

Telkom Mobile Managing Director, Attila Vitai commented: “We are pleased to offer the new BlackBerry Z10 to our consumers. Our data-hungry, smartphone users who download apps, games, music, videos, books, magazines and more via their handset will enjoy the enhanced customer experience of the BlackBerry Z10 on 8ta’s 3G network. People have already started pre-ordering the BlackBerry Z10, so we expect strong demand at our retail stores.”

For further enquiries, please contact:

Telkom Park, The Apex 92 Oak Avenue Technopark Highveld Centurion

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.