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Telkom Waya-Waya and PrepaidFone customers to receive wireless service


Pretoria, 08 Oct 2015

Telkom is upgrading two of its fixed-line prepaid voice services, Waya-Waya and PrepaidFone, from copper to a wireless Fixed-Line-Look-Alike (FLLA) service. Telkom's mobile prepaid customers will not be affected by the move.

Fixed-line prepaid is a voice-only service provided over copper lines, which are vulnerable to disruption due to lighting, rain and cable theft. Consequently, Telkom is revamping prepaid products to take advantage of new technology, and the current format will no longer be supported.

Customers affected by the change will retain their numbers and prepaid wallet balances, and will receive a fixed-line-look-alike device to use at no additional charge.

"We're giving customers a more reliable product with the same functionality they've enjoyed in the past and the freedom to control their spending upfront. At the same time, we're looking at additional entry-level prepaid products that work on wireless infrastructure," said Attila Vitai, MD of Telkom Retail.

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Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. It 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 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, Telkom had approximately 3.4 million telephone access lines in service and 964 196 ports connected via MSAN access. It offers 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 its mobile brand called Telkom Mobile; and
* Other services including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet.
* Convergence is one of the company's key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for Telkom. It will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of its mission statement: Seamlessly connecting people to a better life.

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