{"id":949172,"date":"2025-07-24T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949172"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:56:31","slug":"mtn-uganda-to-spin-off-fintech-unit-into-separate-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/24\/mtn-uganda-to-spin-off-fintech-unit-into-separate-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Uganda to spin off fintech unit into separate firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA: MTN Uganda, the East African country&#8217;s largest telecom firm, plans to split off its fintech unit into a separate entity and aims to list it on the local bourse in three to five years, the company said late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has a mobile subscriber base of about 21 million, is a unit of South Africa&#8217;s MTN Group and competes mainly with the local unit of India&#8217;s Bharti Airtel .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA: MTN Uganda, the East African country&#8217;s largest telecom firm, plans to split off its fintech unit into a separate entity and aims to list it on the local bourse in three to five years, the company said late on Tuesday. The company, which has a mobile subscriber base of about 21 million, is a unit of South Africa&#8217;s MTN Group and competes mainly with the local unit of India&#8217;s Bharti Airtel .<\/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-949172","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\/949172","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=949172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}