{"id":944454,"date":"2025-07-08T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944454"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:30:19","slug":"australian-telco-vocus-receives-government-nod-for-tpg-telecom-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/australian-telco-vocus-receives-government-nod-for-tpg-telecom-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian telco Vocus receives government nod for TPG Telecom deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s TPG Telecom said on Monday that Macquarie-backed Vocus Group has secured the final approval for its A$5.25 billion ($3.42 billion) acquisition of TPG&#8217;s enterprise, government and wholesale fixed-line and fibre assets.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, first announced in 2024, received approval from Australia&#8217;s competition regulator in March, positioning Vocus as one of the country&#8217;s largest owners of underground fibre infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition will allow Vocus to connect nearly 20,000 buildings across Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s TPG Telecom said on Monday that Macquarie-backed Vocus Group has secured the final approval for its A$5.25 billion ($3.42 billion) acquisition of TPG&#8217;s enterprise, government and wholesale fixed-line and fibre assets. The deal, first announced in 2024, received approval from Australia&#8217;s competition regulator in March, positioning Vocus as one of the country&#8217;s largest owners of underground fibre infrastructure. The acquisition will allow Vocus to connect nearly 20,000 buildings across Australia.<\/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-944454","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\/944454","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=944454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}