{"id":47050,"date":"2012-04-03T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T11:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47050"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:53:54","slug":"telkom-boosts-value-with-free-voice-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/47050-telkom-boosts-value-with-free-voice-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom boosts value with free voice services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> announced today (3 April 2012) that a number of its value added services are now offered free of charge to postpaid voice customers. These services include Basic Voicemail, the RingBack feature, SpeedCall, Three-Way Calling and UrgentCall.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom currently offers the CallCatcher feature which provides an alternative to standalone products such as Call Answer, IdentiCall and WaitingCall. The CallCatcher option bundles these three value added services in a single option.<\/p>\n<p>Existing and new Telkom Closer customers will receive CallCatcher as part of their package. Non-Closer (or analogue line) postpaid customers will receive CallCatcher for a monthly subscription of R10.00 (including VAT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aiming to create a simpler portfolio that offers clearer value to our customers and is also easier for Telkom to manage,\u201d said <a title=\"Manelisa Mavuso\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/287381-Manelisa-Mavuso\">Manelisa Mavuso<\/a>, Telkom\u2019s Managing Director for the consumer division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to note that no systems, platforms or any other infrastructure will be discontinued \u2013 the focus is simply on creating value to our existing and potential customers,\u201d added Mavuso.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has also affected a number of enhancements on its three Closer calling plans. Closer customers now have the option of adding more minutes to their monthly packages.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Closer plans included free minutes to fixed Telkom numbers only. Now, for R80 more a month, customers can receive an additional 60 any-time minutes for calls to mobile and other fixed line networks.<\/p>\n<p>In another change, a 10% discount on international calls to the top 30 fixed destinations has been extended to Closer 1 and 2 customers.<\/p>\n<p>The discount applies to popular destinations such as Australia, Botswana, China, France, Germany, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, New Zealand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, United States, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom - why always us?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/8969\/telkom-why-always-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Telkom: why always us?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom\u2019s fibre-to-the-home plans\" href=\"..\/broadband\/46656-telkoms-fibre-to-the-home-plans.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s fibre-to-the-home plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details revealed (25 March 2012)\" href=\"..\/broadband\/46308-more-telkom-40mbps-vdsl-trial-details-revealed.html\"><strong>More Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details revealed (25 March 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom improves its consumer voice offerings with a number of free value added services, as well as \u2018R80 for 60 minutes\u2019 bolt on &#8220;Closer&#8221; offering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36178,"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":[35,1609,109,10388],"class_list":["post-47050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-manelisa-mavuso","tag-telkom","tag-voice-calls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47050"}],"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=47050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47052,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47050\/revisions\/47052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}