Within weeks of rolling out substantially expanded data packages, the company today announced that TelkomInternet will increase the speed of its Fastest DSL offering to "up to10 Mbps", effective 15 August 2010.
Telkom is enhancing its ADSL network to support ADSL speeds of up to 10Mbps in all areas that have suitable technology at exchanges to support the upgrade.
The 10 Mbps ADSL speed is an innovative enhancement to the existing Fastest DSL product, which now allows users to potentially burst at 10 Mbps.
All upgrades therefore remain subject to localised line conditions and the type of equipment available at the nearest exchange.
The upgrade is focused on 4Mbps users who currently sync at full profile speed. This means that 10 Mbps will initially have a limited footprint, but this footprint will increase as Telkom expands its Metro Ethernet and ADSL2+ presence.
Customers can use an online availability check tool to establish the status of upgrades in their area. The availability checker can be found on the following Web pages:
* http://www.telkom.co.za/products_services/dsl/ordering.html
* http://www.telkom.co.za/products_services/dsl/conditions.html
Recently, Telkom announced increases in the allocated blended bandwidth of some of its data packages at no additional cost to customers. The latest speed upgrade will also be at no additional cost to customers.
The increase in allocated blended bandwidth, together with the improvement in speed, will have significant benefits for a wide range of users.
For more information, please contact the TelkomInternet call centre by dialling 10215.
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Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa and on the African continent. It had consolidated normalised operating revenue from continuing operations of R37 billion and normalised profit for the year from continuing operations of Telkom of R2.3 billion in the year ended 31 March 2010. Total assets from continuing operations amounted to R56.8 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R29.9 billion as of 31 March 2010. The group generated normalised free cash flow of R5.5 billion for the year ended 31 March 2010.
As of 31 March 2010, it had approximately 4.3 million telephone access lines in service and 99.9% of its telephone access lines were connected to digital exchanges. It offers business, residential and payphone customers a wide range of services and products, including:
* Fixed-line voice services, including subscriptions and connections services, local, long distance, fixed-to-other operators and international voice services, interconnection services, which includes hubbing communications services and international voice over Internet Protocol services, subscription-based value-added voice services and customer premises equipment rental and sales;
* Data and Internet services, including domestic and international data transmission services, such as point to point leased lines, ADSL services, managed packet-based services and W-CDMA data services, managed data networking services and Internet access and related information technology services;
* Fixed, mobile, data and international communications services in Nigeria through our Multi-Links subsidiary; and
* Other services, including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet, Internet services outside South Africa, through Africa Online and MWEB Africa and provision of management services to ICT through Telkom Management Services.
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