{"id":998958,"date":"2026-03-23T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998958"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:56:40","slug":"america-movils-claro-agrees-to-buy-brazils-desktop-in-753-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/23\/america-movils-claro-agrees-to-buy-brazils-desktop-in-753-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"America Movil&#8217;s Claro agrees to buy Brazil&#8217;s Desktop in $753 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO: Telecom operator Claro, owned by Mexico&#8217;s America Movil, said on Sunday it has agreed to acquire a 73% stake in Brazilian \u200cinternet \u2060provider Desktop \u2060for an enterprise value of 4 billion reais ($752.93 million).<\/p>\n<p>The base equity price, after deducting Desktop&#8217;s net debt, is about 2.41 billion reais, or 20.82 reais \u2060per share, \u200cClaro said in a securities filing.<\/p>\n<p>The share price \u2060represents a 44.5% premium over Desktop&#8217;s Friday closing price of 14.40 reais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO: Telecom operator Claro, owned by Mexico&#8217;s America Movil, said on Sunday it has agreed to acquire a 73% stake in Brazilian \u200cinternet \u2060provider Desktop \u2060for an enterprise value of 4 billion reais ($752.93 million). The base equity price, after deducting Desktop&#8217;s net debt, is about 2.41 billion reais, or 20.82 reais \u2060per share, \u200cClaro said in a securities filing. The share price \u2060represents a 44.5% premium over Desktop&#8217;s Friday closing price of 14.40 reais.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998958","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=998958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}