Telkom announces new prices

·28 Jun 2013

Telkom has announced its new tariff adjustments which will kick in on 1 August 2013, which sees an overall increase of 1.3% on basic voice and data connectivity services.

Telkom said that it endeavoured to contain the adjustments to a minimum and kept them significantly lower than inflation, which is currently at 5.6%.

Telkom’s new prices include a decrease in the tariffs for outgoing fixed to mobile calls of 3.1% to R1.30 (Incl VAT) per minute during peak time and by 2.7% to R1.05 (Incl VAT) per minute during off-peak time.

Telkom left its DSL and Telkom Internet monthly subscription charges unchanged. The overall bill of ADSL clients will, however, increase because of higher line rental prices.

Postpaid analogue residential line rentals will increase by 5.8% to R157.00 (Incl VAT) per month and business line rentals will increase by 6.2% to R216.00 (Incl VAT) per month.

Installation charges will increase by 6% and this includes postpaid, PrepaidFone ISDN and DSL services. Line rental for PrepaidFone (weekly/monthly and Top-up) also increases by 6%.

The following table provides an overview of Telkom’s new prices which will become effective on 1 August.

Line rental

	Current		Changes as of August 2013
Line charges	Residential	Business	Residential	Business
Installation (New line)	R551.69	R551.69	R584.79	R584.79
Monthly rental (analogue line)	R148.37	R203.35	R157.00	R216.00
ISDN 2a (per month)	R270.39	R375.55	R286.62	R398.08

Packages

Bundle category	Consumer Bundles (all unchanged)	Current Price
Soft Capped Bundles	do Basic (1024kbps + 5GB)	R219
	do Advanced (2,048kbps + 10GB)	R395
	do Premium (4/10mbps + 20GB)	R554
	do Premium Plus (4/10mbps + 30GB)	R639
	do Elite (20mbps + 30GB)	R727
	do Elite Plus (40mbps + 50GB)	R1,099
Uncapped Bundles	do Uncapped Basic Bundle	R329
	do Uncapped Advanced Bundle	R459
	do Uncapped Premium Bundle	R699
	do Uncapped Premium Plus Bundle	R999
	do Uncapped Elite	R1,899
	do Uncapped Elite Plus	R3,499