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29 June 2012

Telkom frees uncapped internet

In line with the ever increasing demand for more data utilisation, Telkom today announced a promotion offering three months free uncapped Internet connectivity to residential customers and small to medium businesses.

From 1 July, customers signing up for a 24 month uncapped internet package in the do Uncapped residential product range and the TBiz Uncapped business product range, will receive three months free Uncapped Internet connectivity. This promotion delivers savings of up to R4000 for residential customers and up to R10 000 for small to medium sized businesses.

In addition, new customers will receive free ADSL and landline installation and a free WiFi modem.

"Telkom's Do Uncapped offering removes restrictions on data volumes to satisfy the customer's growing appetite for media rich online content, thus enabling our residential customers to download and watch more movies, and music and so forth," says Manelisa Mavuso, Managing Director: Consumer Services and Retail.

"With this promotion we are continuing to create new products and services that enable multiple users in a household or business to run multiple bandwidth-hungry applications at the same time, at faster speeds and with greater stability provided by fixed line internet."

Small and Medium businesses will not only enjoy the benefits of this promotion but also the recent price adjustments and speed upgrades on the TBiz Uncapped product range.

"As more sophisticated business applications such as collaborative email, document sharing and web-hosting or cloud storage tools become relevant to the SME the demand for greater data volumes and the freedom to explore the Internet unrestricted grows," explains Mr Thami Magazi, Managing Executive: SME Services.

"Our uncapped offerings offer small and medium businesses the ability to integrate high speed Internet into their daily operations and ultimately boost their productivity and subsequently their profits," concluded Mr Magazi.

When launching uncapped last year, Telkom had observed industry trends and analysed data usage patterns to develop an uncapped product that delivers a quality and sustainable service that ensures responsible, fair and balanced data consumption. This promotions helps make the uncapped product accessible to even more customers.

All of Telkom's uncapped packages are subject to certain daytime speed restrictions outlined in Telkom Internet's Acceptable Use Policy.

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.