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09 April 2013

Telkom first to launch unlimited on-net calling on new mobile plans

This week Telkom Business launches the latest in a range of new mobile plans that aim to help businesses of all sizes improve productivity and reduce communication costs.

A unique feature of these plans is unlimited on-net calling, meaning colleagues can talk to each other as much as they want without incurring additional cost. These plans also include unlimited calls to one landline, unlimited access to a nationwide network of wifi hotspots and unlimited SMS on selected contracts.

The new plans follow the recent launch of the unlimited all-net tariff by Telkom, another South African first, offering unlimited calls to any network, any time for only R1.199 per month.

Acting Managing Executive for Mobile Solutions at Telkom Business, Ms Megan Nicholas, says, "Telkom Business understands the need to be connected with colleagues and customers at all times whilst managing communication costs. The new plans have been designed with this in mind - businesses can now talk and message as much as they want without fear of additional cost."

"The new plans are in line with Telkom Business’ strategy to disrupt the mobile voice market and bring high quality, unique and affordable communications solutions to businesses," Nicholas continued.

Telkom has successfully increased its mobile customer base by over 200% in the past year, thanks to disruptive voice and data offerings.

"Telkom Business plans to launch several more disruptive mobile products over the coming months, including converged services that will add even more value to South African businesses," Nicholas concluded.

Additional Information

A table of Voice plans – a key feature of these plans is unlimited on-net calling.

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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.