{"id":12341,"date":"2011-06-13T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"telkom-promises-adsl-at-far-higher-speeds-and-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12341-telkom-promises-adsl-at-far-higher-speeds-and-quality","title":{"rendered":"Telkom promises ADSL at \u201cfar higher speeds and quality\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/26515-telkom-promises-higher-broadband-speeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telkom <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/26487-telkom-revenue-falling.html\" target=\"_blank\">today announced<\/a> their annual results for the year ended 31 March 2011, revealing a drop in revenue and a continued decline in fixed line customers.<\/p>\n<p>One area which remained a strong performer is ADSL where subscriber numbers increased by 16.1% to 751,625 (from 699,368) when compared to the 31 March 2010 reporting period.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom highlighted that their share of net additions within the entire broadband market is declining as a result of the rapid growth in mobile broadband.&nbsp; Broadband does however remain a growth driver for Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To capitalise on this growth it is necessary for Telkom to invest significantly in shortening the local loop, additional fibre and Metro Ethernet,&rdquo; Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Fixed-line broadband needs to differentiate itself from mobile offerings through far higher speeds and quality. Research indicates that customers are prepared to pay more for higher value services.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that it plans to offer customers &ldquo;far higher speeds and quality&rdquo; in selected areas in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Telkom gearing up to provide higher broadband speeds and unmatched end-to-end quality data packages to enterprise and other value clusters,&rdquo; said Telkom CEO Pinky Moholi.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Telkom will continue to up-sell and cross-sell higher bandwidth converged products to both consumer and enterprise segments,&rdquo; the company said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14649-Telkom-promises-better-broadband?p=455679#post455679\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Telkom and ADSL<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admits it needs much &quot;differentiate&quot; DSL from mobile to be competitive <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}