{"id":280539,"date":"2018-10-18T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=280539"},"modified":"2018-10-18T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:20:27","slug":"telkom-will-work-hard-to-remove-association-with-poor-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/280539-telkom-will-work-hard-to-remove-association-with-poor-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom will work hard to remove association with poor service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is working towards addressing issues of poor service and will strive to give customers a great experience with the company.<\/p>\n<p>This is a statement from Serame Taukobong, CEO of small business and consumer at Telkom, who was speaking at the 2018 MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Taukobong said Telkom has become associated with bad service, and viewed in a negative light, and this needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>If the issue is addressed, Telkom&#8217;s popular products like FreeMe and its deal of the month can become attractive to non-Telkom users.<\/p>\n<p>Taukobong also touched on difficulties customers have with cancelling Telkom services, and how this is a missed opportunity to upsell to users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Great service<\/h3>\n<p>Along with service improvements,\u00a0Taukobong said Telkom was investing in its\u00a0mobile network, particularly in the backhaul, to provide users with great speeds and a great experience.<\/p>\n<p>For users who do not use Telkom as their primary mobile provider, he punted the benefits of dual-SIM smartphones and how they let a user test Telkom as their secondary provider.<\/p>\n<p>If they like what they see, they can consider making Telkom their primary SIM, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Taukobong said Telkom was upping its game in other areas too, and is upgrading its Telkom LIT media player to Android 8.0 &#8211; making it Netflix compliant.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also rolling out its Telkom LIT app, he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/280521-the-satellite-broadband-solution-for-off-grid-businesses.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The satellite broadband solution for off-grid businesses<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is working towards addressing issues of poor service and will strive to give customers a great experience with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":280541,"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":[54697,1355,109,38453],"class_list":["post-280539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-mybroadband-conference-2018","tag-serame-taukobong","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-freeme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280539"}],"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=280539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280561,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280539\/revisions\/280561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}