Our business

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We provide fixed-line, mobile, ICT and data services to the business and consumer markets and offer a wide range of products to suit the needs of our customers. We operate in nine different countries across Africa, with South Africa making up 98.9% of Telkom’s total revenue.

As of 31 March 2013, the Group had approximately 3.8 million telephone access lines in service and 73,400 ports connected via MSAN access.

The announcement of the Convergence Strategy in July 2012 triggered a change in the way Telkom is managed from a financial reporting perspective as it is now managed as a single business, based on a common network, providing a complete service to various types of customers. In order to meet the needs of their different customer profiles, Telkom markets products based on the service lines listed below:

Information is provided on these subsidiaries in the Integrated Report, however are insufficiently material to be considered a separate segment for the purposes of IFRS 8 Operating Segments.