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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Telkom has also announced that they now have 8 744 mobile W-CDMA subscribers, up from 5 253 in March 2009. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n