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Telkom executive takes computers to needy youth

Mr Manelisa Mavuso, Telkom’s Managing Director for Consumer Services and Retail visited the Othandweni Family Care Centre on Friday, 05 April, to officially open the computer laboratory that was made possible by Telkom and Huawei.

The contribution to Othandweni was initiated by Mr Mavuso through the Telkom Foundation’s Adopt-A-Project Programme. The programme encourages Telkom executives to patron a community project in various ways through financial support, time and skills contribution. Over the last three years the Telkom Foundation has donated R300 000 to the Othandweni Family Care Centre.

The Othandweni Family Care Centre is situated in Mfolo South, Soweto and offers residential care for children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected. It caters for 90 children from birth to 18 years of age.

Mr Mavuso hopes that the access to technology will advance the quality of education for the children at the centre. “There is no programme more constructive than an educational one. In the digital age a big part of quality education is delivered through the use of ICTs,” he said.

“Not only will access to technology improve education levels of the children, but it will help socialise and prepare them for employment in an increasingly digital world,” concluded Mr Mavuso.

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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.