{"id":937667,"date":"2025-06-11T07:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937667"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:37:44","slug":"south-africas-telkom-resumes-dividends-as-earnings-jump-62-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/11\/south-africas-telkom-resumes-dividends-as-earnings-jump-62-3\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Telkom resumes dividends as earnings jump 62.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African telecommunication firm Telkom reported on Tuesday a 62.3% rise in full-year earnings and resumed dividends after a four-year suspension, declaring also a special dividend of 98 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the operator of South Africa&#8217;s biggest fixed-line network announced the suspension of dividends for the next three financial years starting in 2021 to conserve cash for spectrum auctions and strengthen its financial position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African telecommunication firm Telkom reported on Tuesday a 62.3% rise in full-year earnings and resumed dividends after a four-year suspension, declaring also a special dividend of 98 cents per share. In 2020, the operator of South Africa&#8217;s biggest fixed-line network announced the suspension of dividends for the next three financial years starting in 2021 to conserve cash for spectrum auctions and strengthen its financial position.<\/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-937667","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\/937667","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=937667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}