{"id":15976,"date":"2012-06-20T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T09:25:15","slug":"telkom-fixed-mobile-bundles-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/15976\/telkom-fixed-mobile-bundles-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom fixed mobile bundles for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1637-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> unveiled today (20 June 2012) a set of converged bundled solutions which offer businesses a range of fixed and mobile solutions on a single bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an expression of Telkom\u2019s key strategic thrust to lead in the fixed mobile convergence (FMC) market. We recently undertook to keep our stakeholders informed on development of the company strategy and I am pleased to announce our progress on the FMC journey,\u201d said Telkom Group CEO, <a title=\"Nombulelo Moholi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1667-Nombulelo-Pinky-Moholi\">Nombulelo Moholi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Business\u2019 managing director, <a title=\"Brian Armstrong\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3187-Brian-Armstrong\">Brian Armstrong<\/a> said, \u201cOne of the key drives in Telkom is a move from being the \u2018incumbent\u2019 to market leadership. Single service offerings and ultimately the move toward converged solutions is a key part of achieving this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has an aggressive roadmap toward offering true FMC and seamless, unified communications and has already achieved a number of milestones including the launch of Cybernest, Telkom Business Mobile and the unveiling of Telkom Business Broadband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Telkom is best positioned to lead in this space. We have the necessary infrastructure, network, products, scale and resources to offer the best of the fixed and mobile technology worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Converged bundles will now marry Telkom\u2019s fixed, mobile and data offerings into a single solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe convenience of flexible and scalable tailor made solutions; unified billing and a single point of purchase and service support will deliver unrivalled value, cost and productivity gains for our business customers,\u201d said Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom unveiled three fixed mobile deals today; however, Armstrong announced that in the coming weeks the company would reveal almost two dozen more convergence deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore all the convergence deals can be tailored to the customer\u2019s specific requirements via a deal builder portal on Telkom Business\u2019 Online Shopping Basket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that coming soon, Telkom would offer SIM bundle deals on convergence accounts and \u201cClosed User Group Deals\u201d, with up to 20 000 mobile users, and free calls to one fixed line on certain deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, FMC will evolve from basic PBX mobile extensions to comprehensive UC with collaborative solutions. Telkom is currently piloting premise-based unified communications solutions with three large corporate customers as we gear up to reach the next milestone on this journey,\u201d said Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Packages and pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telkom Business announced three pre-packaged deals today, adding that it would have almost 2 dozen deals available shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The deals are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>R469<\/strong> for 1024kbps <a title=\"ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2225-ADSL-Asymmetric-digital-subscriber-line\">ADSL<\/a> with 10GB data per month (future automatic upgrades do not apply) and 10GB mobile data per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>R499<\/strong> for for BizTalk Plan 1 and a Mobile Voice contract 3 with <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1752-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> Curve 9360.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>R969<\/strong> for BizTalk Plan 1, 1024kbps ADSL and 10GB data, and mobile voice on contract 3 with BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 16GB BlackBerry Playbook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armstrong said that these bundles are not their \u201cend game\u201d but a step in the roll-out of fully converged fixed and mobile services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/15914\/telkom-retains-negative-outlook-by-sp\/\"><strong>Telkom retains negative outlook by S&amp;P<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Telkom outlook revised to negative: S&amp;P\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/833\/telkom-outlook-revised-to-negative-sp\/\">Telkom outlook revised to negative: S&amp;P<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"S&amp;P cuts SA outlook to negative\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/8629\/sp-cuts-sa-outlook-to-negative\/\"><strong>S&amp;P cuts SA outlook to negative<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has unveiled its converged bundled solutions for business customers with a one-bill fixed and mobile solution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[407,79,2997,26,2198,65],"class_list":["post-15976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-8ta","tag-adsl","tag-brian-armstrong","tag-headline","tag-nombulelo-moholi","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}