Telkom doubles data for summer

Issued by Telkom Business
Pretoria, 25 Sep 2015

All Telkom customers are set to receive double their Telkom Internet data allocation for free from 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016 the company announced today. This means that customers on Telkom's largest SoftCap package will now receive one Terrabyte of data per month.

"The demand for data is infinite and our efforts are geared to offering our customers as much value as we possibly can to satisfy this demand. Not only are we increasing data values but we have also reviewed and reduced the prices on our top data products. For example, we have reduced the price of our 500 GB product from R2 495 to R1 599 - now with our double data promotion customers will receive one Terrabyte of data for R1 599," said Telkom's Managing Director of Telkom Mobile and Consumer, Attila Vitai.

Telkom's data TopUp rates have also been reduced and the double data promotion also applies to TopUp options.

Telkom also announced the return of its popular "TI Entertainment" add on for R99 per month which offers customers an uncapped experience to selected content sites including Apple TV, iTunes and DSTV online services such as BoxOffice and CatchUp.

"This summer we will be leveraging our powerful fixed- mobile convergence capabilities to ensure that customers awaiting installations and certain customers in high fault zones are able to access their monthly fixed data allocation to connect to the Internet using the on-net Telkom Mobile network," explained Vitai.

The Telkom Integrated data service will be targeted at certain customers and requires a Telkom Internet SIM card with specific configuration setting to enable the alternative access and to set up modems and devices for use or fail over.

Additional Information

Telkom Internet product and rate changes

Telkom Internet Home SoftCap Standalone
Product Description	Current Price	Double Data Promotion	New Price
10GB	R 99	20GB	R 99
20GB	R 149	40GB	R 149
50GB	R 269	100GB	R 269
100GB	R 525	200GB	R 525
200GB	R 995	400GB	R 699
300GB	R 1 495	600GB	R 999
500GB	R 2 495	1TB	R 1 599

The double data promotion applies from 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016

Telkom Internet TopUp, Out of Bundle, TopUp Saver
Product Description	Current Price	Double Data Promotion
Out of Bundle	1.2c/MB
TopUp 2GB	R 24	4GB
TopUp 4GB	R 48	8GB
TopUp 6GB	R 72	12GB
TopUp 8GB	R 96	16GB
TopUp Saver 10GB	R 99	20GB
TopUp Saver 20GB	R 149	40GB
TopUp Saver 50GB	R 269	100GB
TopUp Saver 100GB	R 525	200GB
TopUp Saver 200GB	R 699	400GB
TopUp Saver 300GB	R 999	600GB
TopUp Saver 500GB	R 1 999	1TB

The double data promotion applies from 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016

Telkom Internet Home Uncapped Standalone
Product Description	Current Price	New Price
2Mbps Home Uncapped	R 229	R 229
4Mbps Home Uncapped	R 286	R 286
10Mbps Home Uncapped	R 574	R 574
20Mbps Home Uncapped	R 1 099	R 999
40Mbps Home Uncapped	R 1 799	R 1 439
100Mbps Home Uncapped	R 2 687	R 2 149

Price changes applicable from 1 October 2015

Telkom

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, it 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 including, 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 brand called Telkom Mobile; and
* Other services including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet.

Convergence is one of its 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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