{"id":1033556,"date":"2026-09-07T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033556"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:34:02","slug":"britains-gamma-to-get-higher-bid-from-dutch-private-equity-firm-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/07\/britains-gamma-to-get-higher-bid-from-dutch-private-equity-firm-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Gamma to get higher bid from Dutch private equity firm: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch private equity firm Waterland plans to make an offer for British telecommunications company Gamma Communications that exceeds the \u00a31.08 billion ($1.38 billion) bid from Epiris, a \u200cBritish \u2060private \u2060equity firm, the Sunday Times reported. <\/p>\n<p>Gamma last week agreed to \u200ba 1,120 pence per share offer from Epiris. <\/p>\n<p>After a takeover \u200bis completed, Waterland \u2060would sell \u200ctwo Gamma divisions to UK \u200btelecom \u200bservice company Giacom, the \u2060Sunday Times reported. The divisions cater to \u200bsmall- and medium-size enterprises and \u200baccounted for nearly 30% of Gamma&#8217;s revenue last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch private equity firm Waterland plans to make an offer for British telecommunications company Gamma Communications that exceeds the \u00a31.08 billion ($1.38 billion) bid from Epiris, a \u200cBritish \u2060private \u2060equity firm, the Sunday Times reported. Gamma last week agreed to \u200ba 1,120 pence per share offer from Epiris. After a takeover \u200bis completed, Waterland \u2060would sell \u200ctwo Gamma divisions to UK \u200btelecom \u200bservice company Giacom, the \u2060Sunday Times reported. The divisions cater to \u200bsmall- and medium-size enterprises and \u200baccounted for nearly 30% of Gamma&#8217;s revenue 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-1033556","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\/1033556","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=1033556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033587,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033556\/revisions\/1033587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}