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Schools to benefit from Telkom Knockout

The Telkom Foundation has partnered with the Telkom Knockout to provide connectivity to selected under-privileged schools.

Each of the 16 PSL teams competing in the Telkom Knockout Competition will nominate a school for the duration of the competition.

The chosen schools of the two teams that reach the final stage of the competition will receive a fully fledged computer lab to the value of R200 000, turning their place of learning into a ‘Connected School.

A third school will be drawn from the remaining 14 team's school nominations to also receive the same prize.

The prizes include 21 laptops, an interactive whiteboard and projector, Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity for two years and education content and programmes and much more.

Telkom in this way aims to assist government in ensuring the advantages that come with ICTs are afforded to citizens.

"We have a history of using the football sponsorship, such as the previous Telkom Charity Cup, as a catalyst for uplifting the communities. To this end our Foundation's focus areas align to the Telkom Knockout theme of "connecting people" through football," explains Telkom's Executive for Brand, Ms Joy Khaole.

"From a corporate citizenship perspective, this platform affords Telkom the opportunity to address education - a key challenge SA is grappling with currently," she adds

The 'Connecting Schools' project aids Telkom's mission to provide seamless connectivity that will help South Africans realise their dreams of more productive, rewarding and fulfilling lives.

Earlier this year the Telkom Foundation handed over of 300 tablets to six schools in Mpumalanga as part of its Connecting Schools Project. In September 2012, the Foundation delivered over 130 tablets with free internet connectivity to schools in the Western Cape.

"The Telkom Foundation has been providing assistance to under-privileged and rural communities for the past 15 years. We are committed to giving learners from disadvantaged communities equal opportunities in education and leverage Telkom's ICT expertise to make a visible difference in education," says Ms Sarah Mthintso, Head of the Telkom Foundation.

"We believe the long-term prospects of our country hinges on the quality of our education system. We feel an obligation to prepare learners to one day excel in the knowledge economy," she concludes.

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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.