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New Telkom LTE bundles to offer customers better value

Telkom announced that it has revamped all of its LTE bundles to offer customers better value, which has resulted in a big drop in the prices of its postpaid and prepaid data bundles.

“The entire postpaid suite has been reworked to not only include new entry-level 10GB and 20GB bundles; SIM-only and Top-up offers are also available for customers that already have an LTE router whilst additionally providing 24-month contract options should an LTE router be required,” Telkom said. Bundle sizes have been increased on existing offers and SIM-only pricing at a reduced cost is available across all plans.

Telkom said it has also improved its Prepaid LTE offering for customers that prefer flexibility. The company has added new entry-level 10GB and 20GB LTE bundles in addition to raising the data allocations for existing bundles. With the new SIM-only offers, the SmartBroadband Wireless Data offer will comprise of Postpaid and Top-up offers,” Telkom said.

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Telkom said that customers could take advantage of its new prepaid offers by purchasing a Telkom Prepaid SIM, migrating to the Smartbroadband Prepaid tariff and purchasing one of the once-off prepaid LTE Bundles.

Anytime data on all the data bundles listed below is valid for two months (61 days), except for the 5GB and 10GB bundles, where it is valid for only one month (31 days).

Night Surfer data allocation is valid for one month across all the new prepaid, postpaid, and top-up bundles.

Telkom’s overhauled postpaid and prepaid LTE data bundles are listed below.

SIM-Only Postpaid and Top-Up prices
SmartBroadband Wireless SIM-only LTE Bundles
Product Anytime Data Night Surfer Data Price
SmartBroadband 5GB Wireless 5GB 5GB R59
SmartBroadband 10GB Wireless 10GB 10GB R99
SmartBroadband 20GB Wireless 20GB 20GB R199
SmartBroadband 40GB Wireless 40GB 40GB R299
SmartBroadband 60GB Wireless 60GB 60GB R399
SmartBroadband 80GB Wireless 80GB 80GB R499
SmartBroadband 120GB Wireless 120GB 120GB R699
SmartBroadband 220GB Wireless 220GB 220GB R999

Prepaid prices
Once-off prepaid LTE Bundles
LTE/LTE-A Once Off Anytime Data Night Surfer Data Price
5GB + 5GB 5GB 5GB R99
10GB + 10GB 10GB 10GB R149
20GB + 20GB 20GB 20GB R249
40GB + 40GB 40GB 40GB R359
60GB + 60GB 60GB 60GB R459
80GB + 80GB 80GB 80GB R559
120GB + 120GB 120GB 120GB R759
220GB + 220GB 220GB 220GB R1,059

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Source: mybroadband