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Telkom’s tariff adjustments below inflation

Telkom has set its increase on basic voice and data connectivity services at an overall 1.3% - far below the Consumer Price Index, which is currently at 5.6%.

The tariffs will be applicable as of 1 August 2013. The adjustments also see a decrease in the tariffs for outgoing fixed to mobile calls of 3.1% to R1.30 (Incl VAT) per minute during peak time and by 2.7% to R1.05 (Incl VAT) per minute during off-peak time.

"Telkom is committed to serving customers' best interests and to making telecommunications accessible to all South Africans. We have therefore endeavoured to contain the adjustments to a minimum and kept them significantly lower than inflation, which is currently at 5.6%," said Mr Manelisa Mavuso, Telkom's Managing Director: Consumer Services and Retail.

He highlights the fact that DSL and Telkom Internet monthly subscription charges remain unchanged, even though current upgrades, as part of the Company’s Network Transformation Programme, will result in speed increases on the Fast and Faster DSL options.

Resulting in a significant decrease for current long distance calls, on-net local and long distance call tariffs for postpaid and WorldCall will be combined into to a single tariff of R0.46 (Incl VAT) per minute during standard time and R0.23 (Incl VAT) per minute during Callmore time. The minimum charge will be R0.63 (Incl VAT).

Also, PrepaidFone on-net local and long distance call tariffs will be combined into one and charged at R0.70 (Incl VAT) per minute during standard time and R0.33 (Incl VAT) per minute during Callmore time. The minimum charge will be R0.96 (Incl VAT) and the surcharge for PrepaidFone and Top-up increases from R0.66 to R0.70 per call.

Installation charges will increase by 6% and this includes postpaid, PrepaidFone ISDN and DSL services. Line rental for PrepaidFone (weekly/monthly and Top-up) also increases by 6%.

International calls are adjusted by 0% overall, however, tariffs to some destinations will increase, some will decrease and others will remain unchanged.

Postpaid analogue residential line rentals will increase by 5.8% to R157.00 (Incl VAT) per month and business line rentals will increase by 6.2% to R216.00 (Incl VAT) per month.

The monthly subscription for the Telkom Weekender Plan (previously Closer 1) increases to R176.00, Telkom Evening and Weekend Plan (previously Closer 2) to R194.00 and Telkom Unlimited Anytime Plan (previously Closer 3) to R350.00.

All public payphone call tariffs remain unchanged.

Additional information:

Postpaid call charges (0-50km) Local:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Standard time	Callmore time	Standard time	Callmore time
Minimum charge	R0.57	R0.57	R0.63	R0.63
Per minute rate *	R0.42	R0.21	R0.46	R0.23
Talktime for minimum charge	81 seconds	166 seconds	82 seconds	166 seconds

* Actual calls are charged per second with a minimum charge per call

Postpaid call charges (>50km) Long distance:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Standard time	Callmore time	Standard time	Callmore time
Minimum charge	R0.57	R0.57	R0.63	R0.63
Per minute rate *	R0.57	R0.29	R0.46	R0.23
Talktime for minimum charge	60 seconds	120 seconds	82 seconds	166 seconds

* Actual calls are charged per second with a minimum charge per call

PrepaidFone call charges (0-50km) Local:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Standard time	Callmore time	Standard time	Callmore time
Minimum charge	R0.83	R0.83	R0.96	R0.96
Per minute rate *	R0.60	R0.29	R0.70	R0.33
Talktime for minimum charge	83 seconds	174 seconds	83 seconds	174 seconds

* Actual calls are charged per second with a minimum charge per call

* The surcharge for PrepaidFone Top-up increases from 66c to 70c per call.

PrepaidFone call charges (>50km) Long distance:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Standard time	Callmore time	Standard time	Callmore time
Minimum charge	R0.88	R0.88	R0.96	R0.96
Per minute rate *	R1.08	R0.54	R0.70	R0.33
Talktime for minimum charge	49 seconds	97 seconds	83 seconds	174 seconds

* Actual calls are charged per second with a minimum charge per call

* The surcharge for PrepaidFone Top-up increases from 66c to 70c per call.

International outgoing calls:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Peak Time	Global Off-peak time	Peak Time	Global Off-peak time
Minimum charge	R0.57	R0.57	R0.63	R0.63

Calls to some popular International fixed line destinations

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
Price per minute	Peak Time	Global Off-peak time	Peak Time	Global Off-peak time
UK	R 0.60	R 0.60	R 0.60	R 0.60
USA	R 0.60	R 0.60	R 0.60	R 0.60
Canada	R 0.70	R 0.70	R 0.60	R 0.60
France	R 0.75	R 0.75	R 0.75	R 0.75
Australia	R 0.75	R 0.75	R 0.75	R 0.75
Portugal	R 0.97	R 0.72	R 0.81	R 0.81
Germany	R 1.12	R 0.81	R 1.13	R 1.13
Botswana	R 1.43	R 1.17	R 1.43	R 1.43
India	R 1.16	R 0.93	R 1.13	R 1.13
Namibia	R 1.17	R 1.01	R 1.13	R 1.13
Zimbabwe	R 1.58	R 1.46	R 1.54	R 1.54

These charges are also applicable to PrepaidFone and WorldCall; actual calls are charged per second with a minimum charge per call

Other charges:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Residential	Business	Residential	Business
Installation (New line)	R551.69	R551.69	R584.79	R584.79
Monthly rental (analogue line)	R148.37	R203.35	R157.00	R216.00
ISDN 2a (per month)	R270.39	R375.55	R286.62	R398.08

DSL and Telkom Internet bundles (all unchanged):

	Consumer Bundles:	Current Price
Soft Capped Bundles	do Basic (1024kbps + 5GB) do Advanced (2,048kbps + 10GB) do Premium (4/10mbps + 20GB) do Premium Plus (4/10mbps + 30GB) do Elite (20mbps + 30GB) do Elite Plus (40mbps + 50GB)	R 219.00 R 395.00 R 554.00 R 639.00 R 727.00 R 1,099.00
Uncapped Bundles	do Uncapped Basic Bundle do Uncapped Advanced Bundle do Uncapped Premium Bundle do Uncapped Premium Plus Bundle do Uncapped Elite do Uncapped Elite Plus	R 329.00 R 459.00 R 699.00 R 999.00 R 1,899.00 R 3,499.00

Business SoftCapped Bundles:	Internet (GB)	Current Price
Starter	5	R249.00
Entry	10	R299.00
Basic	20	R414.00
Advanced	20	R519.00
Premium	40	R849.00
Premium +	50	R959.00
Elite	80	R1 399.00
Elite +	100	R1 899.00

Telkom Closer:

Telkom Weekender Plan (Closer 1)	Telkom Evening and Weekend Plan (Closer 2)	Telkom Unlimited Anytime Plan (Closer 3)
Line rental,Free VAS	Line rental,Free VAS	Line rental,Free VAS
Std time: 46c per minute 46c minimum local & LD,1st 30 local minutes free	Std time: 46c per minute 46c minimum local & LD,1st 30 local minutes free	Unlimited on-net calls, per second billing for fixed to mobile calls
Callmore time: R1.40 per call local & LD up to an hour on weekdays, Free weekend calls local & LD up to an hour, 60 free local internet minutes	Unlimited local & LD calls up to an hour, 60 free local internet minutes	Unlimited on-net calls, per second billing for fixed to mobile calls
a 10% fixed discount to the 30 most popular international fixed line destinations	a 10% fixed discount to the 30 most popular international fixed line destinations	a 10% fixed discount to the 30 most popular international fixed line destinations
Current: R167.00	Current: R185.00	Current: R341.00
New: R176.00 (5.4%)	New: R194.00 (4.9%)	New: R350.00 (2.6%)

PrepaidFone:

	Current	W.e.f. August 2013
Installation (new line)	R318.00	R337.08
Monthly rental	R76.39	R80.97
Weekly rental	R17.62	R18.67
Annual rental	R168.20	R178.30

Outgoing calls to mobile/cellular services from postpaid and PrepaidFone:
To Vodacom, MTN, Cell C & 8.ta

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
	Peak time	Off-peak time	Peak time	Off-peak time
First minute	R1.35	R1.08	R1.30	R1.05
Every 30 seconds thereafter	R0.68	R0.54	R0.65	R0.53

Public payphone call charges: Coin and cardphones:

	Current		W.e.f. August 2013
Unit charge	R0.50		unchanged
Metering periods	Standard time	Callmore time	Standard time	Callmore time
Local (0-50km) & LD (>50km)	46.7 seconds	82.0 seconds	unchanged	unchanged
Mobile/cellular	14.5 seconds	19.1 seconds	unchanged	unchanged

For further enquiries, please contact:

Telkom Park, The Apex 92 Oak Avenue Technopark Highveld Centurion

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.