{"id":14552,"date":"2012-06-05T16:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14552"},"modified":"2012-06-05T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:25:04","slug":"vodafone-in-discussions-with-telstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/14552\/vodafone-in-discussions-with-telstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone in discussions with Telstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has entered into discussions with Telstra to explore a potential acquisition of Telstra\u2019s New Zealand subsidiary, TelstraClear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discussions are continuing and there is no certainty as to whether an agreement will be reached. A further announcement will be made in due course, if appropriate,&#8221; the group said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based Vodafone Group acquired a 65% stake in SA operator Vodacom, in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone New Zealand, a subsidiary of the UK&#8217;s Vodafone Group PLC, enjoys a customer base of about 2.5 million in its native country,\u00a0representing\u00a0close on half of the country&#8217;s mobile phone market.<\/p>\n<p>Related article:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodafone announces board reshuffle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/12659\/vodafone-announces-board-reshuffle\/\">Vodafone announces board reshuffle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has entered into discussions with Telstra to explore a potential acquisition of Telstra\u2019s New Zealand subsidiary, TelstraClear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,3037,3036,27,737],"class_list":["post-14552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-telstra","tag-telstraclear","tag-vodacom","tag-vodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14561,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions\/14561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}