{"id":356941,"date":"2020-06-22T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=356941"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:35:58","slug":"telkom-subscriber-numbers-everything-is-down-with-one-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/356941-telkom-subscriber-numbers-everything-is-down-with-one-exception.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom subscriber numbers – Everything is down, with one exception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telkom has released its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2020, which showed a sharp decline in subscribers across most segments.<\/p>\n

Telkom\u2019s fixed-line subscribers declined from 2,267,000 in March 2019 to 1,602,000 in March 2020, the biggest year-on-year drop in history.<\/p>\n

Telkom\u2019s Closer subscribers declined by 43% over the last year \u2013 from 718,968 in March 2019 to 408,751 in March 2020.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Internet all-access subscribers also plummeted over the last year, declining from 507,172 in March 2019 to 393,135 in March 2020.<\/p>\n

There was one exception \u2013 mobile. Telkom\u2019s active mobile subscribers increased from 9.7 million in March 2019 to 12 million in March 2020.<\/p>\n

Mobile broadband subscribers increased by 28% over the last year, up from 6.4 million in March 2019 to 8.2 million in March 2020.<\/p>\n

The table below provides an overview of how Telkom\u2019s subscriber numbers changed over the last year.<\/p>\n

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Telkom Operational Data<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Segment<\/strong><\/td>\nMarch 2020<\/strong><\/td>\nMarch 2019<\/strong><\/td>\nChange<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fixed access lines<\/strong><\/td>\n1,602,000<\/td>\n2,267,000<\/td>\n-29.3%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fixed broadband subscribers<\/strong><\/td>\n686,525<\/td>\n847,650<\/td>\n-19.0%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet all-access subscribers<\/strong><\/td>\n393,135<\/td>\n507,172<\/td>\n-22.5%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Closer subscribers<\/strong><\/td>\n408,751<\/td>\n718,968<\/td>\n-43.1%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Managed data network sites<\/strong><\/td>\n39,090<\/td>\n43,996<\/td>\n-11.2%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Active mobile subscribers<\/strong><\/td>\n11,995,281<\/td>\n9,680,725<\/td>\n+23.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile broadband subscribers<\/strong><\/td>\n8,162,977<\/td>\n6,377,056<\/td>\n+28.0%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Big investment in mobile<\/h3>\n

Telkom has invested heavily in its mobile network to expand coverage, with an emphasis on 4G.<\/p>\n

The company increased its network investment by 22.1% to R3.7 billion over the last year, which helped it to significantly increase its number of base stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe increased our base stations by 14.6% to 5,862, of which 71.1% are LTE time division duplex (TDD) capable and 100% are LTE frequency division duplex (FDD) capable,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n

The expansion aligns with the strategy of building a 4G and 4.5G data network to carry big volumes of data traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe refarmed a significant portion of the 1,800MHz spectrum and started refarming portions of 2,100 MHz for LTE and LTE-A,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n

Refarming the 1,800 MHz spectrum allowed Telkom to switch off and decommission most 2G access nationally, resulting in an improved 4G experience.<\/p>\n

The company has also upgraded over 30% of its base station backhaul to cater for data growth.<\/p>\n

Now read: Telkom fixed-line shocker<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telkom has experienced a big decline in fixed broadband, closer subscribers, Internet all-access subscribers and fixed access lines. There was, however, one exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,109,689],"class_list":["post-356941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356941"}],"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=356941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356981,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356941\/revisions\/356981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}