Business Report.jpg Investors welcome Telkom's FreeMe Alan Cooper, Business Report, Johannesburg, 25 July 2016 Telkom's shares leapt almost 3 percent on Friday as investors welcomed the announcement by South Africa's biggest landline phone carrier of "FreeMe", a set of aggressively priced, data-focused mobile packages. Leading technology and telecoms analysts said on Friday that the mobile data cat was well and truly out of the bag and the days of confusing, customer-unfriendly cellular packages designed around voice and SMS messages were numbered. Available from today to both contract and pre-paid customers, they all come with free on-network calls, free calls and messaging over WhatsApp, BBM, and Viber, as well as 50 free SMS messages per day. "This is a game changer," said Arthur Goldstuck, the managing director of technology research company World Wide Worx. "In launching these packages, Telkom is the first network operator to acknowledge the reality that data is rapidly becoming more important than voice." From: http://www.iol.co.za/business/companies/investors-welcome-telkoms-freeme-204 9057 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13854 (20160725) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/006001d1e649%245e4275f0%241ac761d0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
