{"id":1019593,"date":"2026-07-09T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019593"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:54:27","slug":"uk-takeover-panel-extends-deadline-for-epiris-takeover-of-gamma-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/uk-takeover-panel-extends-deadline-for-epiris-takeover-of-gamma-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"UK takeover panel extends deadline for Epiris takeover of Gamma Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Gamma Communications said on Wednesday the UK takeover panel has once again extended the deadline for Epiris to make a firm offer for the telecom company to August 5. <\/p>\n<p>Discussions between Gamma and private-equity firm Epiris, as well \u200cas other \u2060potential bidders \u2060are ongoing, the British company said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Gamma shares were up 7.5% at 891.5 pence on the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Gamma Communications said on Wednesday the UK takeover panel has once again extended the deadline for Epiris to make a firm offer for the telecom company to August 5. Discussions between Gamma and private-equity firm Epiris, as well \u200cas other \u2060potential bidders \u2060are ongoing, the British company said in a statement. Gamma shares were up 7.5% at 891.5 pence on the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019614,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019593\/revisions\/1019614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}