Telkom unveils fibre-to-the-home offers

Issued by Telkom Business
Johannesburg, 01 Dec 2014

Telkom today announced the commercial availability of its 20Mbps, 40Mbps and 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) offers in selected areas in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.

Homes in Groenkloof, Houghton, Eldoraigne, Parktown and Westcliff in Gauteng; Chelmsfordville, Dawncrest, and Winston Park in KwaZulu-Natal and Clairmont, Bishops Court and Plattekloof in the Western Cape now have access to superfast broadband over Telkom's fibre network.

"We are excited to deliver the next evolution of superfast broadband connectivity to our customers. Fibre has the potential to transmit information at virtually unlimited speed and capacity allowing for a continuous improvement of our broadband offers," says Telkom COO, Dr Brian Armstrong.

"The reliability and quality of the fibre connection is unrivalled. Telkom's Fibre to the Home connectivity uses a pure Ethernet connection, eliminating the requirement for intermediate equipment such as modems. This results in a much more stable and reliable service."

Customers in these areas can opt for Telkom's promotional fibre 24-month offers including a 20Mbps line with 50GB data package for R999 a month; 40Mbps line with 100GB package at R1299 a month and 100MBps line with 200GB of data for R1 799 a month. All three packages include a free WiFi router, a 3GB mailbox, e-mail accounts with five aliases and Unlimited Night Surfer data.

"Our value proposition has been designed to meet our customers' growing appetite for media rich online content, allowing them to seamlessly engage with the most bandwidth hungry applications for a truly connected home experience," adds Armstrong.

Earlier this year, Telkom announced the start of its fibre rollout to over 20 suburbs across South Africa and this rollout will continue until March 2015. Customers in the areas already identified as part of the rollout can register their interest for Telkom's FTTH offers here and will then be informed as soon as the network is available in their area. Telkom's ever-growing fibre coverage map can be viewed here.

Customers can also use this demand register to indicate demand in areas not currently on Telkom's current fibre rollout. This information will be used to inform the next phase of Telkom's fibre infrastructure deployment.

"Telkom is gearing up to be as responsive to SA's growing demand for fibre as possible. We are well positioned, as the most experienced fibre player in the country, to truly deliver on this demand," concluded Armstrong.

Telkom

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. It had consolidated operating revenue of R15.9 billion and profit after tax of R1 156 million for the period ended 30 September 2014. Total assets amounted to R41.5 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R23.7 billion as of 30 September 2014. The group generated free cash flow of R1.7 billion for the period ended 30 September 2014.

As of 30 September 2014, the company had approximately 3.5 million telephone access lines in service and 696 392 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 our mobile brand called Telkom Mobile; and
* other services including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet.

* Convergence is one of Telkom'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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