Telkom has released a trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2025 and for the financial year-to-date, reporting a strong performance across the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Telkom Group data revenue grew by 9.6% during the quarter to R6.86 billion and is up 8.5% year-to-date. During the period, mobile data revenue grew 12.9% and fibre-related data revenue increased 8.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the network operator, data revenue accounts for 60% of the group’s total revenue, which is up 1.3% at R11.14 billion year-on-year, and up 2.7% at R33.24 billion for the year-to-date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The disciplined execution of our data-led strategy delivered quality data revenue growth in the third quarter and year-to-date,” said Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This demonstrates our strength as South Africa’s digital backbone and our competitive edge of the OneTelkom approach.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Telkom Group reported earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of R3.24 billion, representing 8.4% growth during the reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“EBITDA also showed good growth year-to-date, increasing by 7.8%, with an EBITDA margin of 27.9% (27.3% excluding property sales,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding the group’s mobile operations, mobile service revenue increased 7.2% year-on-year, and 7.8% year-to-date, which was supported by sustained mobile data growth and solid prepaid performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Telkom Group’s mobile subscribers surpassed 25 million, and mobile data subscribers grew 29.3% to 19.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding fibre, Openserve’s overall revenue increased 2.2% year-on-year and 2.5% year-to-day, which Telkom attributed to continued fibre monetisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Openserve’s fibre connectivity rate, which is the proportion of homes connected versus the number of homes its network passes, is at 52.4%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Openserve’s homes passed surpassed 1.5 million, and its homes connected reached 786,490 during the reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Homes passed increased by 12.0% to 1,501,406, while homes connected increased by 17.8% to 786,490. Our industry-leading connectivity rate expanded to 52.4%,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Our exceptional network reliability resulted in uptime of 99.84%, 99.92%, and 100.00% across access, transport, and core network, respectively.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below summarises key figures the Telkom Group reported in its trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Telkom has released a trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2025, revealing strong mobile and fibre growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":536513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41906],"tags":[33386,1355,109,45547,689],"class_list":["post-629337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-telecoms","tag-openserve","tag-serame-taukobong","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-group","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629337"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629353,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629337\/revisions\/629353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n \nFigure<\/th>\n Q3 2025<\/th>\n Q3 2024<\/th>\n Change<\/th>\n YTD 2025<\/th>\n YTD 2024<\/th>\n Change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Revenue<\/strong><\/td>\n R7.48 billion<\/td>\n R7.15 billion<\/td>\n 4.50%<\/td>\n R21.73 billion<\/td>\n R20.55 billion<\/td>\n 5.70%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Mobile service revenue<\/strong><\/td>\n R5.82 billion<\/td>\n R5.42 billion<\/td>\n 7.20%<\/td>\n R16.89 billion<\/td>\n R15.69 billion<\/td>\n 7.60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Mobile data revenue<\/strong><\/td>\n R4.62 billion<\/td>\n R4.09 billion<\/td>\n 12.90%<\/td>\n R13.29 billion<\/td>\n R11.95 billion<\/td>\n 11.20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Mobile EBITDA<\/strong><\/td>\n R1.99 billion<\/td>\n R1.76 billion<\/td>\n 13.60%<\/td>\n R5.50 billion<\/td>\n R4.96 billion<\/td>\n 10.90%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Openserve<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Revenue<\/strong><\/td>\n R3.18 billion<\/td>\n R3.11 billion<\/td>\n 2.20%<\/td>\n R9.50 billion<\/td>\n R9.27 billion<\/td>\n 2.50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n EBITDA<\/strong><\/td>\n R1.10 billion<\/td>\n R1.07 billion<\/td>\n 2.10%<\/td>\n R3.20 billion<\/td>\n R3.15 billion<\/td>\n 9.60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n