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15 September 2015
Telkom fibre expanded to include more communities
Telkom today announced that its open access fibre broadband network would include more than 25 additional areas, suburbs and communities by the end of September 2015. Telkom has the largest open access fibre network in the country. Fibre is now available in multiple additional suburbs of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth.
The news follows CEO Sipho Maseko’s commitment on 7 September, at the annual Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, that Telkom fibre would be accessible to one million homes by March 2018, with half a million homes to have access by the end of 2016. Telkom already has the largest fibre to the home network in the country, with 38 000 homes currently having access.
“South Africans deserve the best broadband infrastructure and we’re committed to giving them a superior experience. Research conducted around the world has consistently shown a direct correlation between increased access to broadband and economic growth. As an emerging market, South Africa can only benefit from the increasing availability of fibre,” said Alphonzo Samuels, MD of Wholesale and Networks for Telkom.
Fibre to the home currently allows for download speeds of up to 100Mbps, allowing you to download a standard definition 4.7GB video in under seven minutes. An entire music album can be downloaded in eight seconds. Fibre optic cables transmit light, which does not allow for interference from electromagnetic noise such as radios, motors, power lines, electric fences or other cables. This ensures fibre remains a reliable and stable broadband product.
Telkom’s coverage map allows you to check fibre availability for your area. Go to http://www.telkom.co.za/coverage/ or http://www.telkom.co.za/coverage/ftth/. Coverage maps are regularly updated as Telkom expands its fibre network.
List of new areas, suburbs and communities where work has started and is nearing completion:
Kimberley:
- Hillcrest
Bloemfontein:
- Rayton Ridge
- Universitas Ridge
Durban:
- Assagay
- Ballito Industrial Park
- Bothas Hill
- Hillcrest, including Hildene, Langeford Estate and St Helier
- Westmead
- Mount Edgecombe Country Estate 2
Johannesburg:
- Atholl
- Bryanston
- Dunkeld
- Forest Town
- Houghton
- River Club
- Craighall
- Hyde Park
Pretoria:
- Hazelwood
- Menlo Park
- Route 21 Corporate Park (Irene)
- Waterkloof
Port Elizabeth:
- Hallack Road
Cape Town:
- Atlantic Beach Golf Estate
- D’urbanvale
- Oude Westhof (Welgemoed)
- Van Riebeeckshof (Welgemoed)
Note to media:
Please find below a list of communities and suburbs that already have fibre access. We will update this list on a regular basis, as our fibre coverage expands.
Cape Town
- Plattekloof
- Plattekloof 2
- Plattekloof 3
- Camps Bay
- Clifton
- Bakoven
- Foreshore
- De Waterkant
- Bishopscourt
Pretoria
- Groenkloof
- Brooklyn
Johannesburg
- Houghton Estate
- Morningside
- Bryanston
o River Club
- Sandhurst
- Westcliff
- Rosebank
o Craighall
o Craighall Park
o Illovo
o Parktown North
o Hyde Park
- Durban
o Kloof
o Everton
o Winston Park
o Reservoir Hills
o Chiltern Hills
For further enquiries, please contact:
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Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We had consolidated operating revenue from continuing operations of R31.7 billion and profit after tax from continuing operations of R2,889 million for the year ended 31 March 2015. Total assets amounted to R42.0 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R25.7 billion as of 31 March 2015. The group generated free cash flow of R3.9 billion for the year ended 31 March 2015.
As of 31 March 2015, we had approximately 3.4 million telephone access lines in service and 964,196 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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