Telkom boosts voice service with free value-add offerings

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Telkom boosts voice service with free value-add offerings

Telkom improves its consumer voice offerings with a number of free value added services, as well as ‘R80 for 60 minutes’ bolt on “Closer” offering

From Telkom:

CLOSER 1 – R158 p/m
  • Includes Home Line rental and CallAnswer or IdentiCall
  • Unlimited FREE Weekend calls – up to an hour per call (Telkom local and long distance)
  • Pay R1.40 per call-for local and long distance calls up to an HOUR per call during Callmore time –during weekdays
  • Pay 49c per minute-for local and long distance calls during Standard Time (billed per second -minimum charge of 49c per call
  • 30 inclusive standard minutes – Telkom local calls
  • 60 FREE surfing minutes during Callmore time
  • Enhancement: For an additional R80 p/m the customer can obtain an optional 60 fixed to mobile add-on minutes.
  • Enhancement: 10% discount on call rates to the 30 most popular international destinations

CLOSER 2- R177 p/m
  • Includes Home Line rental and CallAnswer or IdentiCall
  • Unlimited FREE Evening and Weekend calls – up to an hour per call (Telkom local and long distance)
  • Pay 49c per minute-for local and long distance calls during Standard Time (billed per second -minimum charge of 49c per call
  • 30 inclusive standard minutes – Telkom local calls
  • 60 FREE surfing minutes during Callmore time
  • Enhancement: For additional R80 p/m the customer can obtain an optional 60 fixed to mobile add-on minutes.
  • Enhancement: 10% discount on call rates to the 30 most popular international destinations

CLOSER 3 – R333 p/m
  • Includes Home Line rental and CallAnswer or IdentiCall
  • Unlimited FREE Evening and Weekend calls – up to an hour per call (Telkom local and long distance)
  • 1300 inclusive standard minutes Telkom local and long distance calls
  • 10% discount on call rates to the 30 most popular international destinations
  • Pure per second billing on fixed line calls to mobile numbers
  • Enhancement: For additional R80 p/m the customer can obtain an optional 60 fixed to mobile add-on minutes.
 
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Telkom currently offers the CallCatcher feature which provides an alternative to standalone products such as Call Answer, IdentiCall and WaitingCall. The CallCatcher option bundles these three value added services in a single option.

Existing and new Telkom Closer customers will receive CallCatcher as part of their package
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So I should be getting Caller ID on my current closer contract?
 
Sheesh.....they were charging people for getting a voicemail facility :(
 
The way this influences my life, the headline should be "Telkom adds more bloat to ADSL lines".

But really, other than businesses, old people, and those without mobile reception, who still uses a landline? ;)
 
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Normal phonelines?... really?

The only reason I have one is for ADSL, and most of the ppl I know are the same.
 
MickeyD said:
How will this affect your DSLAM?
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It won't. I was trying to say that the voice portion of my landline is irrelevant to me and many others (so I jokingly referred to the voice and adsl lines I "rent" from Telkom as my ADSL line), and that any services add to this facility is useless to me i.e. bloat.
 
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Telkom announced today (3 April 2012) that a number of its value added services are now offered free of charge to postpaid voice customers.
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That should read 'for it's closer' customers. The majority of postpaid voice customers still have to pay for the add on. This is just another attempt to stop the collapsing arpu by migrating people to Closer packages.

I will NEVER pay for the ability to see who is calling me. That is in non way a genuine 'value added service' - it is simply part of basic telephony.

And why pay an R80 bolt on for calls! We all know a call to Vodacom or MTN costs Telkom 56c termination, so they are still more than doubling their costs!
 
damn i should actually switch to closer 1. much more value to be had there.
 
Nice, these plans slowly move us to a fixed monthly rental with free on-net calls. Slowly but surely.
 
R80 for 60 minutes is a Ripoff!!! (At least on Closer Plan 3)

This is a complete Ripoff if you think about it, even if it is for mobile calls. :mad:

R80.00 for 60 Minutes = R1.33 per minute.

On my Closer Plan 3, I pay R1.40 per Minute for Mobile (Including VAT) During peak hours,
so that's a whopping 7c per minute saving! :wtf:

The huge "snag" comes in when you consider that Off-Peak mobile calls only cost me R1.14
per minute inc VAT, so I'd be losing 19c for every minute.

On Top of all this, with Closer Plan 3, Mobile calls are billed per second, instead of per minute.
 
burn said:
The way this influences my life, the headline should be "Telkom adds more bloat to ADSL lines".

But really, other than businesses, old people, and those without mobile reception, who still uses a landline? ;)
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The people who want to have a conversation with a good quality connection which does not require repeating everything and shouting.
 
"60 FREE surfing minutes during Callmore time"

LMAO
 
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