Telkom hikes DSL, line rental fees

Basic line rentals are also being increased, but overall basket of services is going up by only 1,2%.

Added by Editor on 28 June 2012.
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Telkom is pushing up basic and broadband line rental fees as part of its annual tariff adjustments it files with its regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA.

Monthly rental fees for its digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband products are being hiked to R165/month for 384kbit/s service from R152/month now. 1Mbit/s customers can expect to pay R299/month in future (from R289/month) and customers with 4Mbit/s and 10Mbit/s lines will pay R425/month from R413/month now.

Telkom announced earlier this month that it would increase the access speeds for 384kbit/s DSL to 1Mbit/s and 1Mbit/s customers would see their speeds doubled to 2Mbit/s. The upgrades are expected to happen over the next few months.

At the same time, Telkom is hiking basic line rental fees by 6%.

The company says it has increased its overall basket of fees by 1,2% on basic voice and data services.  The adjustments come into effect on 1 August 2012 and apply to line rentals, outgoing calls, DSL subscriptions and data connectivity services.

Fixed-to-mobile calls have been cut by 3,6% to R1,35/minute for peak-time calls and R1,08/minute for off-peak calls. This is far less than this year’s reduction in the termination rates the mobile operators charge to carry calls onto their networks, meaning Telkom is hanging on to a healthy slice of the margin benefits of the cuts.

Prepaid local calls increase by 5% but long-distance calls remain unchanged.

Installation charges will be increased by 6% for post-paid, prepaid, ISDN and DSL services.

On Telkom’s Closer calling plans, the monthly subscription for Closer 1 will increase to R167, Closer 2 will increase to R185 and Closer 3 will increase to R341.

Although international calls will not increase overall, tariffs to certain destinations will increase and others will decrease. Calls to certain destinations, including the UK and the US, will remain unchanged.

“As competition in the industry heats up, Telkom continues to compete, and ultimately promote affordable telecommunications access,” the company’s MD for consumer services and retail, Manelisa Mavuso, says in a statement.  — (c) 2012 NewsCentral Media

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  • Sachin Malthoo

    FFS, Telkom really suck, pay more the same crap service. 

    How does bring down adsl prices?? 

  • Echobravo1948

    I sincerely trust that the promised upgrade of the DSL speeds to 1 Mbit/s comes soon coupled with this increase in costs. The 384kbit/s is just to damn slow, especially when you want to use SKYPE or even do live streaming it is forever buffering. so my plea to Telkom is please do this upgrade urgently.

  • Vincent Swart

    Telkom should guarantee 4Mbit if I’m paying for 4Mbit, also at that price guarantee that the connection stays up when it rains.

  • sp4wn

    Hopefully ICASA force them to introduce naked ADSL in the near future – I dont see why I should pay for a telephone line I dont use to have an ADSL line!!!

  • Balefire

    “As competition in the industry heats up,”  WHAT? telscum are the monopoly, wtf are they on about? the IS NO competition in a country run by a sole provider for fixed line rentals. **** off you imbaciles.

  • Marcelive

    Telkom – YOU ARE THE MOST HATED COMPANY IN SOUTH AFRICA, I’m telling you.
    Lies, Corruption, Poor service and then some

  • Big Jim

    But will the speeds really increase, or is this more spin. I have left Telkom ages ago. I am on Neotel, not great but I don’t cry every time the bill arrives.

  • TTRZ

    Line access in the more connected countries are usually a very small yearly fee. This charge should not even exist to this extent in a sane economy. And they have the gall to say that the lines are being subsidized and LLU will cost us more. Well of course the cost of maintaining the lines is probably derived from the thousands of meaningless jobs that Telkom has created out of thin air.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=626067942 Abduraghmaan Van Oordt

    ICASA just as much to blame. It’s like Policeman standing by while old lady getting robbed of her handbag. WTF!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=626067942 Abduraghmaan Van Oordt

    why NO NAKED ADSL – We don’t use our home phones! R140 stolen from the consumers every month! If you go to Game or Makro and take out a R140 Cellphone Contract you atleast get atleast 100 free minutes plus R3000 voucher.

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