Telkom ADSL triple play on the cards

Rudolph Muller

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

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Telkom today released its interim results for the six months ending September 30, 2009.  These results revealed that Telkom’s ADSL subscriber base grew by 22.6% over the last year – up from 491 774 in September 2008 to 602 720 in September 2009.  At March 31, 2009 their ADSL subscribers totalled 548 015.

Do Broadband subscribers have increased 51.1% to 232 796. At March 31, 2009 Do Broadband subscribers totalled 188 540. Broadband penetration as a percentage of residential postpaid lines equals 17.5%, up from 15.4% at March 31, 2009.

Telkom has also announced that they now have 8 744 mobile W-CDMA subscribers, up from 5 253 in March 2009. 

Telkom said that it continues to aggressively promote its broadband packages by focusing their marketing efforts on particular customer groupings and the up-selling of the higher end broadband packages which offer substantial value.

“We have also put in an effort to promote entry-level ADSL packages with extremely competitive pricing. We continue to make every effort to increase the bandwidth available to our customers and are currently negotiating a triple play partnership in order to provide our customers with enhanced content,” said Telkom.

“Speeds of 4 Mbps are available to selective services. We have signed agreements with two partners for our gated community initiative, the benefits of which we expect to start showing in the 2010/11 financial year. We intend to provide gated communities with speeds up to 8 Mbps.”

Telkom ADSL triple play – discussion