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Telkom's Superfast Broadband rollout speeds ahead

Telkom has reached a significant milestone in the deployment of its network transformation programme with the cutover of 240 Multi Service Access Node (MSAN) units.

In 2012, the Company conducted a pilot to test its new fixed broadband access network technology in 53 identified areas. The MSAN was chosen as the technology to cater for fibre to the home or business and VDSL over reduced last mile copper.

The pilot was successfully concluded at the end of February 2013 with the commercial launch of Telkom's new 20Mb/s and 40Mb/s broadband services taking place on 4 March 2013.

The company has also taken fibre directly into 3150 office blocks and business parks, thus embarking the process of decommissioning large copper cables that previously served these buildings. This has improved service to these office parks and buildings and reduced our exposure to, amongst others, rampant cable theft. This major drive to get fibre to these buildings will continue.

Since the commercial launch of the new broadband products, Telkom has expanded the 53 pilot sites and, as at 14 June 2013, has cut-over 240 MSANs. In “new generation broadband port terms” Telkom has now deployed 124,640 active ports on its next generation network.

To fully test the newly deployed MSAN technology, Telkom also embarked on the Fibre to the Home and Fibre to the Business (FTTH/B) Technical Proof of Concept Project. Five sites were identified and, at March 2013, the Company delivered the first 100Mb/s service to a business customer and residential customer.

Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks, Bashier Sallie says that apart from scoring a double century on number of MSAN’s deployed, another 53 are ready to be rolled out in the near future together with a further four exchanges representing some 175 MSANs.

"We are highly satisfied with the rapidly increasing pace at which the new generation broadband network is being deployed," says Sallie.

Customers benefit by enjoying more reliable broadband at higher speeds and improved service delivery due to more sophisticated network management tools.

"The rapid rollout of the MSAN technology is propelling our broadband strategy forward. More and more South Africans will now be able to access super-fast broadband speeds," concludes Sallie.

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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.