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1 August 2010

Telkom's value-added offering

Telkom continues to make access to the Internet increasingly affordable with the announcement of New data packages that will provide customers with much more data at no additional cost.

Additional value for TelkomInternet customers will take effect from today, with increases in blended data allowance on TelkomInternet AllAccess 3 GB Standard and TelkomInternet AllAccess 5 GB Advance, Premium and Business packages.

There will be no price increases or changes to free local data access with the New packages. The increases in data allowance on specific packages are indicated in the table below.

Current Package Blended data amount that package is increased by New Package Price
3 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Standard 2 GB Blended data 5 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Standard R 149.00
5 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Advance 4 GB Blended data 9 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Advance R 239.00
5 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Premium 4 GB Blended data 9 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Premium R 259.00
5 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Business 4 GB Blended data 9 GB TelkomInternet AllAccess Business R 284.00

A range of New internet packages will also be available from today. Local-only data is uncapped and customers will be charged R15.00 per GB if the promotional free local-only data allocation is exceeded.

The New packages are indicated in the table below:

TelkomInternet Packages from 01 August 2010 Blended data Hard cap value Free promotional Local-only data * Price
1 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Standard 1 GB 10 GB R 79.00
1 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Advanced 1 GB 10 GB R 99.00
ISDN 128K - 1 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Advanced 1 GB 10 GB R 149.00
5 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Standard New 5 GB 20 GB R 149.00
9 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Advanced New 9 GB 30 GB R 239.00
9 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Premium New 9 GB 30 GB R 259.00
9 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess Business New 9 GB 30 GB R 284.00

In addition, a New range of Do Broadband products will also be available from today. These are:

Do BB Level DSL Access line Internet Packages Blended data Hard cap value Free Local Only data on promotion* Price
Do 1 Fast DSL - 384kbps based on broadband technology 1 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess 1 GB 10 GB R 199.00
Do 2 Fast DSL - 384kbps based on broadband technology 5 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess New 5 GB 20 GB R 258.00
Do 3 Fastest DSL - 4096kbps based on broadband technology 9 GB Shaped TelkomInternet AllAccess New 9 GB 30 GB R 554.00

This means that customers currently on the Do 1 (1GB) package can upgrade to a Do 2 (5GB) package and get 4 extra gigs for only R59 a month more, providing excellent value.

Telkom's Internet customers will also benefit from a reduction in TopUp prices from mid- August, as indicated in the table below:

  Old Price New
Shaped R 64.76 R 49.00
Unshaped R 113.34 R 69.00

For more information, customers can contact the TelkomInternet call centre by dialling 10215.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Pynee Chetty

Senior Specialist: Media Relations

Group Communication

Tel:+27 12 642 1716

Mobile: +27 81 389 7874

Email: chettpr2@telkom.co.za

 OR

Leigh-Ann Francis

Specialist: Media Relations

Group Communication

Tel: +27 12 642 1728

Mobile: +27 81 391 4780

Email: francilm@telkom.co.za

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ABOUT TELKOM:

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We had consolidated operating revenue of R16.8 billion and normalised profit after tax of R1, 683 million for the period ended 30 September 2015. Total assets amounted to R41.9 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R23.5 billion as of 30 September 2015. The group generated normalised free cash flow of R1.4 billion for the period ended 30 September 2015.

As of 30 September 2015, we had approximately 3.3 million telephone access lines in service and 1,030,441 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.

Convergence is one of our key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for Telkom.  We will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of our mission statement: Seamlessly connecting people to a better life.