Telkom’s ADSL subscriber base has grown steadily over the last seven years, and one of the reasons is the company’s growing ADSL footprint.<\/p>\n
Telkom has recently announced that 100% of their exchanges are now ADSL enabled, which consist of 4,000 digital subscriber line access multiplexers, serving approximately 647,462 ADSL customers country wide.<\/p>\n
Telkom currently has 4.273 million fixed line subscribers which mean that there is still a significant growth potential in terms of ADSL fixed line penetration.<\/p>\n
Increased network investment<\/strong><\/p>\n In its recently released annual report Telkom pointed out that its baseline capital expenditure of R2.366 billion was largely for the deployment of technologies to support the growing data services business –including the ADSL footprint – links to the mobile cellular operators and expenditure for access line deployment in selected high growth areas.<\/p>\n This investment has partly gone to upgrading ADSL exchanges in anticipation of Telkom’s 10 Mbps ADSL offering. 10 Mbps ADSL will only be offered in areas where the exchanges are served by ADSL 2+ exchanges and Metro-Ethernet backhaul, and upgrades of many exchanges were needed to support the higher speeds.<\/p>\n Telkom’s 10 Mbps ADSL service is expected to be launched later this month.<\/p>\n