{"id":328923,"date":"2019-11-29T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=328923"},"modified":"2019-11-29T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:01:36","slug":"telkom-fibre-plans-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/328923-telkom-fibre-plans-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom fibre plans explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/327195-telkom-adsl-and-fibre-shocker.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s latest financial results<\/strong><\/a> revealed that the company\u2019s ADSL, VDSL, and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriber base declined from 974,181 in September 2018 to 781,255 in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>While Telkom grew its high-speed fixed-broadband (FTTH and VDSL) subscriber base from 206,000 to 213,000, it was at a much slower pace than previous growth.<\/p>\n<p>This means Telkom is losing market share to fibre operators like Vumatel and Octotel, which continue to invest heavily in their fibre-to-the-home networks.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of doubling down on its fibre network investment, Telkom has cut its capital expenditure on its fibre network by 36.3% over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has also cut the share which FTTH gets and is now pushing most of its money into fibre-to-the-base-station (FTTbs) to support its mobile ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said in its latest annual report that it has a strong focus on fibre-to-the-business and fibre-to-the-base-station because they have significantly higher ARPU than FTTH.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Telkom says it is not losing the fibre war<\/h3>\n<p>With Telkom rapidly losing market share in the fibre-to-the-home market, many observers speculated that Telkom has given up on fibre services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/327807-telkom-not-losing-the-fibre-war-ceo.html\"><strong>Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko disagreed<\/strong><\/a>, saying the company is definitely not losing the fibre battle.<\/p>\n<p>He said while they have shifted their focus from fibre-to-the-home to fibre-to-the-base-station, they are still the dominant fibre operator in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom told MyBroadband that the company\u2019s focus is on the entire fibre access ecosystem, which is a combination of FTTbs, FTTB, and FTTH.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Openserve national fibre footprint increased from 161,100 km to 164,400 km over the last year,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-money-show\/telkom-released-results-saing-it-has-shown-commitm\/embed?t=2m51s\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Telkom\u2019s home broadband focus<\/h3>\n<p>Telkom said it is focusing on home broadband through multiple access technologies such as ADSL, VDSL, FTTH, and LTE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelkom has commenced a migration program where it upgrades its customer base from ADSL to FTTH and LTE,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of investing large amounts of money into new FTTH rollouts, Telkom decided to focus on homes connected to improve returns on capex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt half year end, we reported a connectivity rate of 42.5% on FTTH &#8211; the highest connectivity rate in the industry,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that fixed-line broadband lines are not a true reflection of Telkom\u2019s market share in broadband, as these numbers exclude LTE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are focusing on home broadband and we reported 2 million home broadband as at 30 September 2019. We do not believe we are losing market share in this segment,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Telkom fibre numbers<\/h3>\n<p>Here is a summary of Telkom\u2019s fibre and broadband numbers as of 30 September 2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homes connected to fibre: <strong>195,416<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 39.7% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre connectivity rate of <strong>42.6%<\/strong> &#8211; an increase of 35.6% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre to the base stations connected: <strong>7,388<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 7.4% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Ethernet businesses connected: <strong>42,417<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 28.5% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed-line broadband data consumption: <strong>558 petabytes<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 14.2% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre to the home footprint: <strong>458,905 homes passed<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 16.7% over the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre to the cabinet footprint: <strong>2,421,145<\/strong> \u2013 an increase of 5.9% over the past year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/327807-telkom-not-losing-the-fibre-war-ceo.html\">Telkom not losing the fibre war \u2013 CEO<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom explains what its plans are regarding fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":307598,"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":[28470],"tags":[71,887,3012,891,35,33386,109,6847],"class_list":["post-328923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-adsl-2","tag-fibre-1","tag-fibre-to-the-home","tag-ftth","tag-headline","tag-openserve","tag-telkom","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328923"}],"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=328923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}