Telkom and JOOX launch new music streaming app Telkom Music

Telkom and Joox have joined forces to launch Telkom Music.

• Telkom and JOOX have joined forces to launch a new audio streaming assistance termed Telkom Music.
• The “VIP” model of the app will value customers R59.99 per month, but a absolutely free model, with constrained attributes, is also obtainable.
• The app has been built to save info usage and space on a smartphone.
• Telkom Music is now obtainable on the Google Engage in Retail outlet and Huawei AppGallery. 

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Telkom has introduced Telkom Music as a new audio streaming assistance in partnership with the Tencent-owned JOOX for R60 per month. The app is now obtainable on the Google Engage in Retail outlet and Huawei AppGallery. 

Telkom and JOOX labored alongside one another to build and launch Telkom Music. Comparable to Telkom’s video clip streaming assistance TelkomONE, customers get absolutely free entry and are in a position to listen for absolutely free but with constrained attributes. Customers can subscribe for R59.99 per month to unlock a so-termed “VIP deal” with a lot more functionality. 

The Telkom Music app dimensions is 10MB and has been built to save info usage and space on a smartphone. It also has a button the place customers can turn on and off their info usage. 

The “Music Expert” characteristic will allow customers to exam their audio understanding versus other customers. This interactive characteristic performs a tune clip for customers to determine inside of a number of seconds as they consider to get the optimum rating versus other customers in many genres and categories. 

The audio app’s “Radio” characteristic will allow customers to locate new tracks to share. The characteristic delivers a non-prevent listening expertise that permits customers to discover new audio aligned with, and suitable to, audio they love. 

The “Flock” characteristic will allow customers to build playlists alongside one another for their up coming major party – no matter whether in man or woman or digital.  

“Telkom recognises that the landscape of audio streaming is altering and highlights that the stand-out characteristic of its audio app is the fact that it focuses on info-saving and shared audio encounters concerning customers,” claims Wanda Mkhize, Telkom head of wise household and information. 

“In legitimate Telkom fashion, our mission is to depart no male guiding and we are thrilled to introduce this giving. We’ve launched a bouquet of merchandise lately to cater to the information requirements of our buyers, including a video clip-on-demand and gaming services and this closes the loop neatly for us from a information viewpoint. 

“The specialized know-how of the Tencent Africa and JOOX crew in this space with our inclusive products portfolio has culminated in the excellent marriage.” 

Brett Loubser, Tencent Africa Providers CEO, claims: “The upcoming of audio streaming will contain shared, social encounters. With lockdown altering the way we link, Telkom Music will contain Mods concentrated on sharing one’s audio expertise. 

“We are extremely psyched to embark on this endeavour with Telkom Mobile. The crew at Telkom Mobile and at Tencent Africa have set a massive volume of effort and hard work into offering the most obtainable audio streaming products achievable. 

“Our app dimensions lowers the volume of memory made use of in a listener’s phone, and integration with Telkom’s app ecosystem would make it straightforward for tens of millions of people today to have tens of millions of tracks in their pocket.”