{"id":166447,"date":"2017-03-27T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=166447"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:41:10","slug":"telkom-could-list-separate-unit-on-the-stock-market-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/166447\/telkom-could-list-separate-unit-on-the-stock-market-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom could list separate unit on the stock market &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom plans to break out its real estate assets and telecommunications towers into a new unit listed separately on the stock market, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-27\/telkom-of-s-africa-said-to-split-tower-assets-may-consider-ipo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new unit will reportedly be listed as a new entity and will focus on property and revenue generation for Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said it would like its property portfolio, which is one of the largest real estate portfolios in South Africa, to contribute more to the company\u2019s earnings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the creation of the property-focused entity is part of the next step in Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko\u2019s plan to turn the company around.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko\u2019s plan also involves an inspection of other Telkom operations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/160665\/blue-labels-cell-c-acquisition-deal-inches-closer-after-telkom-scare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Label\u2019s Cell C acquisition deal inches closer after Telkom scare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom plans to break out its real estate assets and telecommunications towers into a new unit listed separately on the stock market, reported Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,65],"class_list":["post-166447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166447","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166453,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166447\/revisions\/166453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}