{"id":999735,"date":"2026-03-28T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999735"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:49:34","slug":"norway-may-block-telenors-620-million-globalconnect-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/norway-may-block-telenors-620-million-globalconnect-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway may block Telenor&#8217;s $620 million GlobalConnect deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OSLO: Norway&#8217;s Competition Authority may ban Telenor&#8217;s 6 billion crown ($620.4 million) acquisition of GlobalConnect&#8217;s consumer business in the Nordic \u200ccountry, the \u2060regulator \u2060said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Telenor and GlobalConnect announced the transaction in July 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Deal intended to strengthen Telenor&#8217;s position in the Norwegian fibre \u2060market. <\/p>\n<p>Regulator &#8220;concerned \u200cthat many consumers may face more expensive \u2060and lower-quality broadband services due to weakened competition&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSLO: Norway&#8217;s Competition Authority may ban Telenor&#8217;s 6 billion crown ($620.4 million) acquisition of GlobalConnect&#8217;s consumer business in the Nordic \u200ccountry, the \u2060regulator \u2060said on Friday. Telenor and GlobalConnect announced the transaction in July 2025. Deal intended to strengthen Telenor&#8217;s position in the Norwegian fibre \u2060market. Regulator &#8220;concerned \u200cthat many consumers may face more expensive \u2060and lower-quality broadband services due to weakened competition&#8221;.<\/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-999735","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\/999735","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=999735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}