Big Telkom ADSL growth
Telkom has released its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2014, which show that the company has taken a big step towards obtaining one million asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) subscribers.
The results, which were released on Monday, 17 November 2014, show that Telkom now has 965,046 ADSL subscribers as of September 2014, up from 898,203 the year before.
This figure excludes Telkom internal lines, but includes business, consumer, corporate, government, and wholesale customers.
Despite the growth in ADSL subscribers Telkom said that revenue from data connectivity services decreased 0.5% to R2,744 million (down from R2,757 million in September 2013), caused by a decline in Diginet and IPLC revenue due to increased competition and migration to Metro Ethernet services. This was partially offset by an increase in Metro Ethernet services and ADSL revenue.
ADSL revenue increased as a result of the 7.4% increase in ADSL subscribers.
Telkom added that the higher growth of 9.1% on Internet subscribers was supported by a 4.5% increase in Internet access and related services revenue.
The table below shows the growth of DSL in South Africa since the launch of the service in late 2002.
Date | ADSL Subscribers | Monthly Growth |
---|---|---|
March 2003 | 2669 | 445 |
September 2003 | 12,000 | 1,555 |
March 2004 | 20,313 | 1,386 |
September 2004 | 37,000 | 2,781 |
March 2005 | 58,278 | 3,546 |
September 2005 | 95,920 | 6,169 |
March 2006 | 143,509 | 8,037 |
September 2006 | 190,172 | 7,777 |
March 2007 | 255,633 | 10,910 |
September 2007 | 335,112 | 13,247 |
March 2008 | 412,190 | 12,846 |
September 2008 | 491,774 | 13,264 |
March 2009 | 548,015 | 9,374 |
September 2009 | 602,720 | 9,118 |
March 2010 | 647,462 | 7,457 |
September 2010 | 699,368 | 8,651 |
March 2011 | 751,625 | 8,710 |
September 2011 | 795,419 | 7,299 |
March 2012 | 827,091 | 5,279 |
September 2012 | 841,831 | 2,457 |
March 2013 | 870,505 | 4,779 |
September 2013 | 898,203 | 4,616 |
March 2014 | 926,944 | 4,790 |
September 2014 | 965,046 | 6,350 |
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