Telkom South Africa has launched Telkom Music as a new music streaming service developed in partnership with the Tencent-owned platform Joox. It's available for ZAR 60 per month via an app on the Google Play Store and Huawei AppGallery.
Telkom Music Powered by Joox will include ‘Mods’ focused on sharing one’s music experience. With an app size of just 10MB, the app is designed to save data usage and space on the smartphone.
Telkom Music allows customers to stream and download songs while using less data than any other music streaming app, the company claims. It also has a button where users can turn on and off their data usage.
The Music Guru feature allows users to test their music knowledge against other users. This interactive feature plays a song clip for users to identify within a few seconds as they try to get the highest score against other users in various genres and categories. The music app's Radio feature allows users to find new tracks to share. The feature offers a non-stop listening experience that enables users to discover new music aligned with, and relevant to, music they like. The Flock feature allows users to create playlists together, whether in person or virtual.
