{"id":955802,"date":"2025-08-19T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955802"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:38:18","slug":"south-africas-mtn-swings-to-first-half-profit-raises-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/south-africas-mtn-swings-to-first-half-profit-raises-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s MTN swings to first-half profit, raises guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: Africa&#8217;s biggest telecoms operator MTN Group swung to a half-year profit, it said on Monday, as macroeconomic conditions, inflation and foreign exchange rates in key markets showed improved stability. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa-headquartered MTN reported headline earnings per share of 645 cents in the six months to June 30, compared to a headline loss of 256 cents a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: Africa&#8217;s biggest telecoms operator MTN Group swung to a half-year profit, it said on Monday, as macroeconomic conditions, inflation and foreign exchange rates in key markets showed improved stability. South Africa-headquartered MTN reported headline earnings per share of 645 cents in the six months to June 30, compared to a headline loss of 256 cents a year earlier.<\/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-955802","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\/955802","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=955802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}