{"id":4062,"date":"2008-06-09T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-09T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T10:26:00","slug":"no-adsl-price-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/4062-no-adsl-price-cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"No ADSL price cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom today announced its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2008. The results presentation is traditionally a time when Telkom announces price reductions to its ADSL services, but this year proved to be the exception.<\/p>\n<p>It was widely expected that Telkom would announce significant price cuts to match Neotel&rsquo;s recent NeoConnect pricing, but Telkom&#8217;s CEO Reuben September simply said that he feels that Telkom&rsquo;s prices are competitive and that it is continually under review.<\/p>\n<p>In his presentation September said that the company had some pricing initiatives, including offering value-based calling plans and re-balancing tariffs to reduce arbitrage opportunities and driving the penetration of bundles to increase annuity-based revenues.<\/p>\n<p>September said that ADSL subscribers grew by 61.2% to 412 190 for the year ending March 2008, just short of Telkom&rsquo;s initial target of 420 000.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Telkom CEO said that Telkom is targeting 592000 ADSL subscribers for the 2009 financial year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=122126\"><strong>Telkom ADSL price discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No immediate ADSL price cuts from Telkom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}