Telkom to migrate LTE, LTE-A customers to higher value plans

Issued by Telkom Business
Johannesburg, 07 Sep 2015

Telkom today announced it will be automatically migrating Home and Business LTE and LTE-A plans (table below refers) to the recently introduced higher value SmartBroadband Wireless (LTE) and SmartBroadband Wireless LTE-A plans as of 1 October 2015.

The new plans will give customers added value in terms of double data allocation through the included Night Surfer Data and unlimited access to WiFi data at Telkom's public WiFi hotspots.

Attila Vitai, managing director of Telkom Mobile and Consumer, says: "Customers will be migrated to the higher value plans free of charge and there will be no change to their monthly recurring subscription fees after the migration. Our LTE and LTE-A customers will therefore have access to more data at the prices they currently pay.

"This is yet another indication of our continuous drive to create more value for our customers," says Vitai.

SmartBroadband Wireless and SmartBroadband Wireless LTE-A plans have been introduced as fixed wireless broadband propositions for home and office use and therefore customers on these plans must link a secondary mobile device (mobile handset, laptop or tablet) via their My Telkom account to take advantage of the unlimited WiFi at Telkom's public WiFi hotspots. A 10GB Fair Usage Policy applies to the WiFi data included in the plan.

Please click here to view: Additional Information - Plans that will be migrated.

Telkom

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. It had consolidated operating revenue from continuing operations of R31.7 billion and profit after tax from continuing operations of R2,889 million for the year ended 31 March 2015. Total assets amounted to R42 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R25.7 billion as of 31 March 2015. The group generated free cash flow of R3.9 billion for the year ended 31 March 2015.

As of 31 March 2015, Telkom had approximately 3.4 million telephone access lines in service and 964 196 ports connected via MSAN access. It offers 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 its mobile brand called Telkom Mobile; and
* Other services including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet.
* Convergence is one of the company's key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for Telkom. It will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of its mission statement: Seamlessly connecting people to a better life.

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