{"id":236944,"date":"2017-11-10T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=236944"},"modified":"2017-11-10T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:59:52","slug":"telkom-mobile-is-rocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/236944-telkom-mobile-is-rocking.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Mobile is rocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has released its group interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company said operating revenue was down by 0.6% compared to last year, reaching R20.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first half of the year was characterised by a tough economic environment and increased competition,&#8221; said Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though South Africa exited the technical recession in the second quarter of the year, business confidence remains very low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mobile boom<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the tough conditions, Telkom&#8217;s mobile division showed strong growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mobile business growth trajectory continued in the period with strong growth in active customers and stable ARPUs, resulting in an increase of 43.2% in mobile service revenue,&#8221; said Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strong mobile growth which boosted the group&#8217;s performance was underpinned by an expansion of our network, distribution, and the launch of innovative products which were well received by our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased that our mobile business received the MyBroadband Best Mobile Broadband Provider of the year award, in the best value for money category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Standout results from the mobile division were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile broadband subscribers &#8211; <strong>Up 25.2% to 2,848,568<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Active mobile subscribers &#8211; <strong>Up 35.9% to 4,364,508<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Prepaid subscribers &#8211; <strong>3,035,173<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Postpaid subscribers &#8211; <strong>1,329,335<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Smartphone subscribers &#8211; <strong>Up 28.4% to 2,060,645<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ARPU &#8211; <strong>Up 4.1% to<\/strong> <strong>R92.46<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/236786-mtn-to-test-5g-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN to test 5G in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has released its group interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221555,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,109,689],"class_list":["post-236944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236944"}],"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=236944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236954,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236944\/revisions\/236954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}