Faster ADSL by 2011

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 19 November 2007

Telkom is planning to bring us faster ADSL Broadband after the 2010 Soccer World Cup. They are planning to increase the speed of their ADSL Broadband service from 4Mbps to 10Mbps, that’s 10 times faster than iBurst’s current ‘advertised’ speed.

Telkom’s acting CEO, Reuben September, announced their plans to increase ADSL Broadband peak speeds at the company’s interim results presentation.

‘The company is further planning to achieve a 15-20% ADSL penetration rate of fixed access lines by 2011. Telkom announced that it has already increased its ADSL footprint to 2 501 DSLAMs and added that there was a 76.2% growth in ADSL subscriptions from Sept 2006 to Sept 2007’ (10 Mbps ADSL by 2011, MyBroadband, 19 November 2007).

In other words, it’s clear that Telkom is aiming to increase more than just the speed of their ADSL service.

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) welcomes Telkom’s plans to bring us better and faster ADSL Broadband.