{"id":986709,"date":"2026-01-21T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986709"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:18:58","slug":"israels-bezeq-raises-bid-for-rival-hot-mobile-from-altice-to-727-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/israels-bezeq-raises-bid-for-rival-hot-mobile-from-altice-to-727-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Bezeq raises bid for rival HOT Mobile from Altice to $727 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israeli mobile \u200dphone company Pelehone raised its offer to buy \u2060rival HOT Mobile from Patrick Drahi&#8217;s Altice International to 2.3 billion shekels ($727 million) \u200cfrom \u200c2.1 billion after a preliminary agreement did not \u200clead to a binding deal. <\/p>\n<p>Pelephone and Altice had reached a preliminary agreement in November. <\/p>\n<p>French-Israeli businessman Drahi has been trying to divest assets to pay down Altice&#8217;s \u200cmassive debt \u200dload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israeli mobile \u200dphone company Pelehone raised its offer to buy \u2060rival HOT Mobile from Patrick Drahi&#8217;s Altice International to 2.3 billion shekels ($727 million) \u200cfrom \u200c2.1 billion after a preliminary agreement did not \u200clead to a binding deal. Pelephone and Altice had reached a preliminary agreement in November. French-Israeli businessman Drahi has been trying to divest assets to pay down Altice&#8217;s \u200cmassive debt \u200dload.<\/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-986709","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\/986709","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=986709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}