Financial Results

Interim Results 2010

Operational Data

Six months ended 30 September
 
2008
2009
%
Telkom South Africa
ADSL subscribers (1) 491,774 602,720 22.6
Calling plan subscribers 521,704 651,359 24.9
Closer subscribers 507,985 636,010 25.2
Supreme call subscribers 13,719 15,349 11.9
W-CDMA subscribers - 8,744 -
WiMAX subscribers 2,615 2,979 13.9
Do Broadband subscribers 154,095 232,796 51.1
Fixed access lines (’000) (1) 4,504 4,398 (2.4)
Postpaid – PSTN 2,839 2,694 (5.1)
Postpaid – ISDN channels 772 785 1.7
Prepaid 754 797 5.7
Payphones 139 122 (12.2)
Fixed-line penetration rate (%) 9.3 8.9 (4.3)
Revenue per fixed access line (ZAR) 2,635 2,679 1.7
Total fixed-line traffic (millions of minutes) 12,709 11,785 (7.3)
Local 4,688 3,670 (21.7)
Long distance 1,870 1,656 (11.4)
Fixed-to-mobile 2,111 1,906 (9.7)
International outgoing 319 307 (3.8)
International VoIP 17 22 29.4
Subscription based calling plans 1,704 1,869 9.7
Interconnection 2,000 2,355 17.8
Domestic mobile interconnection 1,241 1,184 (4.6)
Domestic fixed interconnection 160 333 108.1
International interconnection 599 838 39.9
Managed data network sites 28,051 29,842 6.4
Internet all access subscribers (2) 395,088 445,334 12.7
Fixed-line employees 24,075 23,445 (2.6)
Fixed access lines per fixed-line employee 187 188 0.5
Movement in fixed-line employees
Opening balance 24,879 23,520 (5.5)
Appointments 503 397 (21.1)
Employee losses (1,307) (472) (63.9)
Workforce reductions (4) - -
Natural attrition (1,303) (472) (63.8)
Closing balance 24,075 23,445 (2.6)
Multi-Links
Active Subscribers 1,571,102 2,036,404 29.6
Employees (3) 1,006 1,060 5.4
Other International
Africa Online subscribers 17,773 16,368 (7.9)
Africa Online employees (4) 357 307 (14.0)
MWEB Africa subscribers - 22,137 -
MWEB Africa employees - 345 -
Other South African
Trudon employees 532 531 (0.2)
(1) Excludes Telkom internal lines.
(2) Includes Telkom Internet ADSL, ISDN, WiMAX and dial-up subscribers.
(3) Employees have decreased 5.7% from 1,124 recorded at March 31, 2009.
(4) Excluding UUNet joint venture partner's subscribers and employees in Kenya.