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The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) has raised concerns over Openserve’s move to launch an Internet service provider.
Telkom’s Openserve has started selling fibre-to-the-home packages directly to users, with prices starting at R325 per month.
While Vodacom and MTN have struggled in South Africa, Telkom is actively improving and aggressively taking their market share, a top financial analyst has said.
Telkom had just 17,077 DSL customers remaining at the end of 2025. It will only retire the service once all these customers have been offered alternative connectivity options.
Telkom will increase prices across its mobile and fixed-line portfolios from 1 April 2026, with hikes ranging from 4.5% to 10% depending on the product.
Telkom’s copper-based DSL subscribers have almost all transitioned to newer technologies, signalling the end of South Africa’s oldest broadband technology.
A major South African ISP has blamed inconsistent communication from Telkom’s wholesale fixed-line division for abrupt cutoffs of some DSL customers.