{"id":993633,"date":"2026-02-19T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993633"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:55:50","slug":"mtn-to-take-full-control-of-ihs-holding-in-deal-that-values-tower-operator-at-6-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/mtn-to-take-full-control-of-ihs-holding-in-deal-that-values-tower-operator-at-6-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN to take full control of IHS Holding in deal that values tower operator at $6.2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: MTN Group has agreed to take full control of IHS Holding, buying the roughly 75% stake it does not already own \u200cin a \u2060deal \u2060that values the tower operator at about $6.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>MTN, Africa&#8217;s biggest mobile operator, will pay $8.50 per share in cash. The deal will be funded through the rollover of MTN&#8217;s existing stake of around 24% in IHS, \u2060as well \u200cas about $1.1 billion in cash from MTN, roughly $1.1 billion from IHS&#8217;s balance sheet, \u2060and the rollover of no more than existing IHS debt, the companies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: MTN Group has agreed to take full control of IHS Holding, buying the roughly 75% stake it does not already own \u200cin a \u2060deal \u2060that values the tower operator at about $6.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. MTN, Africa&#8217;s biggest mobile operator, will pay $8.50 per share in cash. The deal will be funded through the rollover of MTN&#8217;s existing stake of around 24% in IHS, \u2060as well \u200cas about $1.1 billion in cash from MTN, roughly $1.1 billion from IHS&#8217;s balance sheet, \u2060and the rollover of no more than existing IHS debt, the companies said in a [&hellip;]<\/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-993633","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\/993633","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=993633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}