{"id":957771,"date":"2025-08-27T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957771"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:07:39","slug":"telefonica-considers-making-takeover-bid-for-vodafone-spain-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/telefonica-considers-making-takeover-bid-for-vodafone-spain-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Telefonica considers making takeover bid for Vodafone Spain: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Telefonica is considering making a takeover bid for Vodafone Spain, which was bought last year by London-based Zegona, news website El Confidencial reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish government fund SEPI, holding company CriteriaCaixa and Saudi telecoms company STC, which together own almost 30% of Telefonica, support the plan, El Confidencial said.<\/p>\n<p>Telefonica, Vodafone Spain, CriteriaCaixa, STC and SEPI declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Telefonica is considering making a takeover bid for Vodafone Spain, which was bought last year by London-based Zegona, news website El Confidencial reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources. Spanish government fund SEPI, holding company CriteriaCaixa and Saudi telecoms company STC, which together own almost 30% of Telefonica, support the plan, El Confidencial said. Telefonica, Vodafone Spain, CriteriaCaixa, STC and SEPI declined to comment.<\/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-957771","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\/957771","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=957771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}