{"id":16496,"date":"2012-06-26T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2012-06-26T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:05:11","slug":"telkom-partners-with-dion-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/16496\/telkom-partners-with-dion-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom partners with Dion Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> has announced a partnership with Dion Wired to make its broadband services more accessible to customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetail channels remain the predominant channel for customer purchases and are therefore key to Telkom\u2019s strategy to increase market reach and provide convenience and easy access to our products and services,\u201d said <a title=\"Manelisa Mavuso\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/287381-Manelisa-Mavuso\">Manelisa Mavuso<\/a>, Managing Director: Consumer Services and Retail.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has started a pilot project involving Dion Wired stores at Gateway in Durban, Woodmead in Johannesburg, and Canal Walk in Cape Town. The aim is to test the concept before commencing national roll-out.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these stores now has a Telkom counter where customers can order our high-speed broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this way, we aim to capitalise on the synergies at the point of purchase where customers buy their PCs and laptops, gaming consoles, internet TVs, tablets and cellphones,\u201d said Manelisa.<\/p>\n<p>This pilot project with DionWired followed an earlier announcement about Telkom\u2019s partnership with Samsung where customers are offered Telkom broadband packages as part of their Smart TV purchase.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53537\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/53533-telkom-broadband-partnership-with-dionwired.html\/attachment\/telkom-in-dion-wired-store\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53537\" title=\"Telkom in Dion Wired store\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Telkom-in-Dion-Wired-store.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom in Dion Wired store\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telkom in Dion Wired store<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Best fixed broadband connections in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/53451-best-fixed-broadband-connections-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Best fixed broadband connections in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top ADSL ISP in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/53335-top-adsl-isp-in-sa.html\"><strong>Top ADSL ISP in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom Business boosts uncapped ADSL value\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/53327-telkom-business-boosts-uncapped-adsl-value.html\"><strong>Telkom Business boosts uncapped ADSL value<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cutting ADSL prices: ISPs say what needs to be done\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52893-cutting-adsl-prices-isps-say-what-needs-to-be-done.html\"><strong>Cutting ADSL prices: ISPs say what needs to be done<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ADSL capped data prices plummet\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52613-adsl-capped-data-prices-plummet.html\"><strong>ADSL capped data prices plummet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced a partnership with Dion Wired to make its broadband services more accessible to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3318,26,65],"class_list":["post-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-dion-wired","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","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=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}