Telkom Wholesale Services today announced wholesale unit price reductions
of up to 63% across its product range including Wholesale Fibre Broadband
Access, IP Connect, Resell DSL, Metro Ethernet and SAIX dedicated access
offerings.
“A connected South Africa is where positive change starts to happen“,
said Alphonzo Samuels, Telkom’s Chief Technology Officer. “Telkom’s R12
billion investment in our Next Generation High Speed Broadband Network
is ultimately to support South Africa’s entire broadband ecosystem. This
is about much more than just investing in technology. It is about investing
in connectivity that will drive meaningful change in our country”, Samuels
said.
Today’s pricing announcement is the latest in a series of price reductions
of Telkom’s IP Connect product which has now effectively been halved over
the past eighteen months.
Effective 1 May 2015 Telkom’s Wholesale customers can expect the following
price adjustments:
- Rate reductions of up to 10% on the
Wholesale Fibre Broadband Access product range
- Price adjustments of between 6% and
25% across the SAIX product range
- Tariff reductions of between 1.4%
and 63% across the IP Connect product range
- Tariff reductions of between 35%
and 40% across the Metro Ethernet product range
“Telkom has chosen a clear path to democratise data access to all South
Africans. We believe that these major price adjustments and our renewed
focus on value will go far in serving our customers, the industry and ultimately,
the socio-economic development of South Africa,” said Telkom’s Managing
Director of Wholesale Services Mr Prenesh Padayachee.
“As part of our turnaround strategy we recognise that we have an important
role to play in enabling our customers to deliver on the connectivity demands
that South African’s have come to expect. Our investment in next generation
networks and applications is aimed at driving the penetration of broadband
and thereby enabling our customers to grow the market,” he said.
Telkom services its wholesale customer base with the largest and most
ubiquitous IP network in Africa and the Company’s Wholesale services is
positioning itself in order to service an exponentially increasing demand
for copper and fibre-based broadband services.
To this end Telkom Wholesale services continues to invest in new generation
broadband access technologies including Fibre to the Home and Business
which is offered on an open-access basis to other ISPs and Multi Service
Access Nodes initiatives aimed at delivering even higher speeds to the
industry and driving demand among end consumers for rich media content.
“Ultimately Telkom’s Wholesale division is enabling our resellers
through its network and resell products, to operate and compete successfully
in their customer markets,” Padayachee said.
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:
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.