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20 June 2012

Telkom launches convergence bundles

Telkom today gained significant momentum on its journey toward fixed mobile convergence (FMC) when the Company revealed converged bundled solutions for business customers, to bring together the best fixed and mobile solutions, on a single bill, from a single provider.

"This innovation is an expression of Telkom's key strategic thrust to lead in the fixed mobile convergence market. We recently undertook to keep our stakeholders informed on development of the Company strategy and I am pleased to announce our progress on the FMC journey," said Telkom Group CEO, Ms Nombulelo Moholi.

"This journey has been led by Dr Brian Armstrong and his team at Telkom Business who remain committed to delivering innovation in FMC and ultimately seamless unified communication," she added.

Telkom Business' Managing Director, Dr Brian Armstrong says, "One of the key drives in Telkom is a move from being the "incumbent" to market leadership. Single service offerings and ultimately the move toward converged solutions is a key part of achieving this."

Telkom has mapped out an aggressive roadmap toward offering true FMC and seamless unified communications and has already achieved a number of milestones including the launch of Cybernest, Telkom Business Mobile and the unveiling of Telkom Business Broadband.

"We believe that Telkom is best positioned to lead in this space. We have the necessary infrastructure, network, products, scale and resources to offer the best of the fixed and mobile technology worlds."

Converged bundles will now marry Telkom's fixed, mobile and data offerings into a single solution.
"The convenience of flexible and scalable tailor made solutions; unified billing and a single point of purchase and service support will deliver unrivalled value, cost and productivity gains for our business customers," said Armstrong.

Telkom unveiled three fixed mobile "Killer" deals today; however, Armstrong announced that in the coming weeks the Company would reveal almost two dozen more convergence deals.

"Furthermore all the convergence deals can be tailored to the customer's specific requirements via a deal builder portal on Telkom Business' Online Shopping Basket."

He also revealed that coming soon, Telkom would offer SIM bundle Deals on Convergence accounts and Closed User Group Deals, with up to 20 000 mobile users, and free calls to one fixed line on certain deals.

"Telkom has prioritised the journey toward convergence as a key part of the Company's overall strategy. Looking ahead we know that FMC will form an integral element of seamless unified communication (UC) and that is where we are heading," offered Armstrong. UC enables people to communicate anywhere, anytime, over any media.

"Essentially, FMC will evolve from basic PBX mobile extensions to comprehensive UC with collaborative solutions. Telkom is currently piloting premise-based UC solutions with three large corporate customers as we gear up to reach the next milestone on this journey.

"We spend a lot of time talking to our customers to make sure we know what they want. We are confident we can deliver both their existing and latent ICT needs," concluded Dr Armstrong.

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ABOUT TELKOM:

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We had consolidated operating revenue of R16.8 billion and normalised profit after tax of R1, 683 million for the period ended 30 September 2015. Total assets amounted to R41.9 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R23.5 billion as of 30 September 2015. The group generated normalised free cash flow of R1.4 billion for the period ended 30 September 2015.

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.