{"id":841513,"date":"2024-08-06T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=841513"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:00:26","slug":"south-africas-telkom-profit-jumps-on-subscriber-growth-and-digital-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/06\/south-africas-telkom-profit-jumps-on-subscriber-growth-and-digital-services\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Telkom profit jumps on subscriber growth and digital services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s Telkom reported 24.1% growth in core profit in the first quarter, buoyed by strong subscriber growth and increased use of its &#8220;next-generation network&#8221; (NGN) offerings as it ditched legacy services.<\/p>\n<p>Core earnings or EBITDA at South Africa&#8217;s third-largest telecom company grew to 2.8 billion rand ($151 million) in the three months ended June 30, the operator, majority-owned by the government, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s Telkom reported 24.1% growth in core profit in the first quarter, buoyed by strong subscriber growth and increased use of its &#8220;next-generation network&#8221; (NGN) offerings as it ditched legacy services. Core earnings or EBITDA at South Africa&#8217;s third-largest telecom company grew to 2.8 billion rand ($151 million) in the three months ended June 30, the operator, majority-owned by the government, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-841513","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\/841513","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}