{"id":1024671,"date":"2026-07-30T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024671"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:11:51","slug":"singtel-confirms-talks-with-multiple-parties-over-potential-optus-stake-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/singtel-confirms-talks-with-multiple-parties-over-potential-optus-stake-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Singtel confirms talks with multiple parties over potential Optus stake sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) confirmed on Thursday that it was in discussions with multiple parties over a potential stake sale \u200cin its \u2060Australian telecoms \u2060unit Optus, but said there was no certainty the talks would result in a deal. <\/p>\n<p>Optus, Australia&#8217;s second-largest telecommunications provider, has been owned by Singtel since 2001. <\/p>\n<p>Optus has faced heightened scrutiny \u2060since two \u200coutages involving Australia&#8217;s emergency call service that affected thousands of users \u2060and were linked to four deaths. The incidents led to the departure of two senior executives, including the company&#8217;s finance chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) confirmed on Thursday that it was in discussions with multiple parties over a potential stake sale \u200cin its \u2060Australian telecoms \u2060unit Optus, but said there was no certainty the talks would result in a deal. Optus, Australia&#8217;s second-largest telecommunications provider, has been owned by Singtel since 2001. Optus has faced heightened scrutiny \u2060since two \u200coutages involving Australia&#8217;s emergency call service that affected thousands of users \u2060and were linked to four deaths. The incidents led to the departure of two senior executives, including the company&#8217;s finance chief.<\/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-1024671","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\/1024671","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=1024671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024684,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024671\/revisions\/1024684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}