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Resignation of Bashier Sallie, Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks

Telkom Group CEO, Sipho Maseko, today announced the resignation of Bashier Sallie, Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks.

Bashier joined Telkom in 1986 and has worked in technology and network services for most of the time. He held various positions including Managing Executive roles in Data and Special Services, Service Management and Field Operations. He also served as the Company's acting Chief Technical Officer from March 2007 to October 2007. He then moved to the Information Technology division before being appointed as Senior Managing Executive of Wholesale & Networks.

Mr Maseko lauded the role Bashier has played in core operations critical to Telkom's success, saying his understanding of the business and insight into industry trends has enabled him to make telling contributions that have greatly benefitted the company, none more so than the network transformation programme which is a very important milestone in the Telkom roadmap.

"Bashier is starting a new chapter in his life. While we are extremely sorry to see him go, we understand his need to use his many talents elsewhere. We wish him only the very best. He leaves us as a lifelong friend of the company," said Mr Maseko.

Mr Sallie described his time at Telkom as the best experience of his life. “Telkom is an incredible organisation with incredibly talented people. I will always have Telkom's interests at heart."

Mr Sallie will complete his contractual obligation and will remain in his role until the end of the year. During this time he will ensure the smooth functioning of all transitional arrangements.

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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.