{"id":993793,"date":"2026-02-19T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993793"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:27:45","slug":"vodafone-sells-50-stake-in-vodafoneziggo-for-1-18-billion-to-partner-liberty-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/vodafone-sells-50-stake-in-vodafoneziggo-for-1-18-billion-to-partner-liberty-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone sells 50% stake in VodafoneZiggo for $1.18 billion to partner Liberty Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Vodafone said on Wednesday it would sell its 50% stake in Dutch joint-venture VodafoneZiggo \u200cto \u2060its partner \u2060Liberty Global for 1 billion euros ($1.18 billion) in cash and a 10% stake in a new enlarged Benelux telecoms group.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Global will own 90% of the new Ziggo Group, which will bring together its Belgian operator \u2060Telenet with VodafoneZiggo. \u200cIt said it planned to spin off Ziggo Group and list it \u2060on Euronext in Amsterdam in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in \u200bVodafone rose 4% after the \u200bdeal was announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Vodafone said on Wednesday it would sell its 50% stake in Dutch joint-venture VodafoneZiggo \u200cto \u2060its partner \u2060Liberty Global for 1 billion euros ($1.18 billion) in cash and a 10% stake in a new enlarged Benelux telecoms group. Liberty Global will own 90% of the new Ziggo Group, which will bring together its Belgian operator \u2060Telenet with VodafoneZiggo. \u200cIt said it planned to spin off Ziggo Group and list it \u2060on Euronext in Amsterdam in 2027. Shares in \u200bVodafone rose 4% after the \u200bdeal was announced on Wednesday.<\/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-993793","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\/993793","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=993793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}