{"id":873241,"date":"2024-11-05T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=873241"},"modified":"2024-11-05T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:10:24","slug":"blocked-vodacom-merger-derails-s-african-telcos-ma-push-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/05\/blocked-vodacom-merger-derails-s-african-telcos-ma-push-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked Vodacom merger derails S African telcos M&amp;A push: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition Tribunal&#8217;s decision to block a merger between Vodacom and a major fibre operator will likely derail a push by South African telecoms firms to use big M&amp;A deals as a shortcut to digital infrastructure expansion, analysts said. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which blocked South Africa&#8217;s top telco from taking a 30% stake in major fibre operator Maziv, could force companies to build their own networks or pursue smaller, less controversial tie-ups, delaying much-needed investment by years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition Tribunal&#8217;s decision to block a merger between Vodacom and a major fibre operator will likely derail a push by South African telecoms firms to use big M&amp;A deals as a shortcut to digital infrastructure expansion, analysts said. The ruling, which blocked South Africa&#8217;s top telco from taking a 30% stake in major fibre operator Maziv, could force companies to build their own networks or pursue smaller, less controversial tie-ups, delaying much-needed investment by years.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873241","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=873241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}