{"id":823500,"date":"2024-06-18T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=823500"},"modified":"2024-06-18T20:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:41:59","slug":"south-africas-telkom-reports-big-jump-in-full-year-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/18\/south-africas-telkom-reports-big-jump-in-full-year-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Telkom reports big jump in full-year profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom, South Africa&#8217;s third-biggest telecom company, said on Tuesday its headline earnings jumped 201% in the full-year to March, driven by continued demand for its next-generation technologies and cost-optimisation initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>Telkom, in which the government has a majority stake, said headline earnings per share (HEPS) soared to 376 cents in the year ended March 31, up from 124.8 cents. <\/p>\n<p>The operator also said it will be in a position to pay dividends in the near term, with its financial year 2025 targeted as the first year-end to consider paying a dividend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom, South Africa&#8217;s third-biggest telecom company, said on Tuesday its headline earnings jumped 201% in the full-year to March, driven by continued demand for its next-generation technologies and cost-optimisation initiatives. Telkom, in which the government has a majority stake, said headline earnings per share (HEPS) soared to 376 cents in the year ended March 31, up from 124.8 cents. The operator also said it will be in a position to pay dividends in the near term, with its financial year 2025 targeted as the first year-end to consider paying a dividend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823500","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}