Telkom will increase its wholesale transit rate for UK Mobile Vodafone from R0.301 (+ VAT) to R56.119 (+ VAT) \u2013 an 18,544% increase \u2013 from 28 December 2021.<\/p>\n
This price increase was communicated to Telkom’s clients on very short notice. They were only given seven days, of which three days were public holidays, to prepare for the change.<\/p>\n
One telecommunications executive, who spoke to MyBroadband on condition of anonymity, said this is nothing new.<\/p>\n
“Telkom has done this multiple times before. With all the public holidays, they are trying to catch wholesale clients out while they’re on leave,” he said.<\/p>\n
As many executives are now on holiday, they are unlikely to check their work emails and note the large wholesale transit rate increase.<\/p>\n
Telkom previously communicated a similar change before the Heritage Day long weekend, with the higher rates coming into effect immediately after it.<\/p>\n
Unless Telkom’s wholesale clients are aware of these changes and address it, they can face big losses for calls to destinations where rates have increased significantly.<\/p>\n
MyBroadband asked Telkom for comment about the large wholesale transit rate increase for UK Mobile Vodafone calls, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n
Telkom will increase one of its wholesale transit rates by over 18,000% on short notice, which may catch clients unaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":398621,"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":[3],"tags":[35,109],"class_list":["post-428404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428404"}],"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=428404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}