{"id":1026895,"date":"2026-08-07T07:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026895"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:59:48","slug":"swisscom-posts-higher-core-profit-as-italy-merger-brings-in-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/swisscom-posts-higher-core-profit-as-italy-merger-brings-in-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Swisscom posts higher core profit as Italy merger brings in savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms group Swisscom reported a higher half-year core profit on Thursday, boosted by cost efficiency measures and savings \u200crelated to \u2060its \u2060Vodafone Italia acquisition last year. <\/p>\n<p>The Swiss group&#8217;s lease-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, or EBITDAaL, rose 3.3% to 2.56 billion Swiss francs ($3.17 billion) in the first half of 2026, compared with 2.47 billion francs in \u2060the same \u200cperiod last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms group Swisscom reported a higher half-year core profit on Thursday, boosted by cost efficiency measures and savings \u200crelated to \u2060its \u2060Vodafone Italia acquisition last year. The Swiss group&#8217;s lease-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, or EBITDAaL, rose 3.3% to 2.56 billion Swiss francs ($3.17 billion) in the first half of 2026, compared with 2.47 billion francs in \u2060the same \u200cperiod last year.<\/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-1026895","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\/1026895","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=1026895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026903,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026895\/revisions\/1026903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}