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Telkom offers free additional IP Connect capacity

Telkom today announced that it will provide five percent additional IP connect capacity to all existing IP Connect wholesale customers at no additional cost, with effect from 1 October 2013.

The South African fixed broadband market is currently experiencing exponential growth in data usage and Telkom expects that this data demand will continue to climb in the coming years.

To this end, the Company has commenced a network investment and transformation programme focused on increasing fixed broadband access speeds. This is evidenced by Telkom’s launch of 20 and 40 Mbit/s VDSL services and the increased rate of deployment of the Multi Service Access Node units across the country that enable these services.

Telkom endeavours to dynamically capacitate the fixed broadband eco-system ahead of expected demand, including but not limited to port capacity, backhaul to fixed broadband nodes and Telkom’s IP network.

"We have decided to take this step because of the exponential growth in broadband data usage and in support of our aggressive next generation network investment programmes," says Telkom's Managing Director of Wholesale and Networks, Mr Bashier Sallie.

Telkom notes that this decision is independent of the stipulations in the Company's settlement agreement with the Competition Commission. The Company remains committed to the implementations of the agreement and announcements in this regard will be made in due course.

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.