{"id":104203,"date":"2014-06-13T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104203"},"modified":"2014-06-13T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T06:44:58","slug":"good-news-for-telkom-mobile-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/104203-good-news-for-telkom-mobile-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Telkom Mobile data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> released its audited results for the year ended 31 March 2014, which showed that its mobile revenue increased 72.7% to R2,347 million. Mobile data revenue increased 80.2% to R656 million.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom further said that its active mobile subscribers increased 17.6% to 1,803,675 with a blended ARPU of R62.79.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for <a title=\"Telkom Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/515780-Telkom-Mobile\">Telkom Mobile<\/a> data subscribers is that the company continued to grow its network.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Mobile now has 2,428 integrated sites \u2013 an annual increase of 22.3%. The company also grew its LTE sites to 1,183.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Some bad news as well<\/h3>\n<p>It was, however, not all good news. While revenue from Telkom\u2019s mobile operations grew 72.7%, mobile voice and subscriber revenue decreased 20.4%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can be attributed to the expiry of bulk hybrid contracts and a clean-up of our debtors\u00b4 book which has resulted in an improved quality of our customer base,\u201d said Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decrease in post-paid voice revenue was partially offset by higher pre-paid voice and subscriptions revenue, supported by an increase in subscribers and ARPU.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #263034;\">More on mobile services<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"MTN, Telkom Mobile network sharing deal here soon: report\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/97881-mtn-telkom-mobile-network-sharing-deal-here-soon-report.html\"><strong>MTN, Telkom Mobile network sharing deal here soon: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"MTN, Telkom Mobile deal to boost 4G data\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/101312-mtn-telkom-mobile-deal-to-boost-4g-data.html\"><strong>MTN, Telkom Mobile deal to boost 4G data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom released its latest financial results, which shows good news regarding Telkom Mobile\u2019s network and data growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,2490,109,689],"class_list":["post-104203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-lte","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}