Telkom subsidiary Openserve says ADSL will be eliminated from its network within the next two years.
digital subscriber line network, once the cornerstone of the company’s internet offerings, will be dead and buried within two years.Beukes was speaking on TechCentral’s TCS+ business technology podcast on Wednesday for an episode that will be published soon.
“We’re in the last 24 months of the journey. At the last financial year-end , we reported around 80 000 active DSL services; we now have fewer than 60 000,” said Beukes. At its peak in 2017, Telkom had just over a million DSL customers on its books. But that number has been declining precipitously for years. Beukes acknowledged the company missed the opportunity to convert its million-strong DSL subscriber base to fibre, but also pointed out that many of the customers now abandoning DSL switch to fixed-wireless alternatives rather than to fibre. Indeed, many of Openserve’s home fibre customers are new to the company, not having used DSL previously.
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