Telkom is offering home and small business customers the opportunity to test its fixed line broadband service with the announcement of a free three month trial promotion. With no strings attached, this offer is not conditional on any contract subscriptions pre or post the trial period.
The offer will be available from 18 July and valid until 15 September 2011, residential customers and small to medium businesses will be granted free subscription to Telkom’s Fast Internet connection with up to 1024kbps ADSL access for three consecutive months.
Customers opting to retain the service after the trial period will pay R395 for the broadband bundle on a month- to-month basis with the option to opt out at any stage without risk of penalties levied. They also have an option to downgrade or upgrade after the trial.
All the elements of this broadband Internet trial are offered to customers without having to sign any contract. “This is a no- commitment promotion as we would simply like to demonstrate the quality of our broadband experience,” said Senior Managing Executive for Telkom SA Manelisa Mavuso.
Included in this offer is free landline and DSL installations, free modem, free 3GB email account and free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.
Over the three month trial period customers will receive 5GB of blended data per month to surf locally and internationally hosted websites.
In addition, once the blended data has been depleted customers can look forward to an additional 20GB of local data to surf locally hosted sites.
During the three month trial customers will only be liable for the cost of their Telkom landline rental, call charges and out-of-bundle data costs. “We are confident that customers will enjoy the speed and quality of fast fixed line broadband,” says Mavuso.
“Telkom is offering South Africans a tangible way to experience fixed line broadband to highlight the unique benefits of this technology which has certainly secured its place in today’s communications landscape,” Mavuso concluded.
Savious Kwinika
NOT TRUE! Telkom has never offered me anything “FREE” except to come around when the ADSL goes on the blink at the exchange. As a long-standing customer, not only of telephone services (since 1977) but of ADSL (for the past 4 years), I have never received anything “FREE” from Telkom except a headache! Why does Telkom not offer their 384kbps subscribers 3 months free access to 4Mbps to “test” that experience? Why does Telkom upgrade 512kbps users to 1024kbps free but leave all their 384kbps subscribers in the dark? Come on, Telkom, we pay you hundreds of Rand every month, regularly, never once going into arrears or generating interest on forgotten payments. Isn’t it time you gave us something for free too?
@Ian. So True ! Give us that have been good payers some free stuff. Another suggestion if you keep your account up to date you get December month for free?