Financial Results

Operational Data

For the Six months ended 30 September
2012
2011
%
Fixed-Line      
ADSL subscribers 1 841,831 795,419 5.8
Calling plan subscribers 843,491 797,827 5.7
Closer subscribers 814,888 767,121 6.2
Supreme call subscribers 28,603 30,706 (6.8)
WiMAX subscribers 3,168 3,364 (5.8)
Internet all access subscribers 2 516,423 556,886 (7.3)
Fixed access lines(’000) 3 3,894 4,073 (4.4)
Postpaid 2,465 2,513 (1.9)
Postpaid – ISDN channels 761 767 (0.8)
Prepaid 571 675 (15.4)
Payphones 97 118 (17.8)
Fixed-line penetration rate (%)4 7.5 7.9 (5.1)
Revenue per fixed access line (ZAR) 2,413 2,402 0.5
Total fixed-line traffic (millions of minutes) 9,273 9,797 (5.3)
Managed data network sites 40,284 37,181 8.3
Telkom Company employees 5 21,217 20,953 1.3
Fixed access lines per employee 5 184 194 (5.4)
Telkom Mobile      
Active subscribers 6 1,495,083 993,764 50.4
Pre-paid 1,121,967 736,363 52.4
Post-paid 373,116 257,401 45.0
Base stations constructed 2,067 1,399 47.7
Employees 7 436 267 63.3
ARPU (Rand) 6 68.62 66.36 3.4
Pre-paid 23.12 21.65 6.8
Post-paid 169.30 286.09 (40.8)
Churn % - pre-paid 52 41 (26.8)
Other International      
iWay Africa      
Active subscribers 8 21,064 23,326 (9.7)
Employees 8 433 494 (12.3)
Customer per employees 8 49 47 3.5
Other South African      
Trudon Employees 527 528 (0.2)
Swiftnet employees 114 114 -
1 Excludes Telkom internal lines and includes business, consumer, corporate, government and wholesale customers.
2 Includes Telkom Internet ADSL, ISDN, WiMAX and dial-up subscribers.
3 Excludes Telkom internal lines.
4 Penetration rate is based on the 2011 Census population statistics. Prior year information has been restated.
5 Based on number of Telkom Company employees, excluding subsidiaries. Telkom Company headcount includes 346 temporary (2011: Nil) workers that were appointed as permanent employees during the period.
6 Based on a subscriber who has participated in a revenue generating activity within the last 90 days. During the period we changed the definition of a revenue generating activity to exclude recharge events as the revenue is deferred until actual usage occurs. The comparative period's ARPU was restated accordingly.
7 Included in Telkom Company employees.
8 Excluding UUNet joint venture partner's subscribers and employees.