{"id":44728,"date":"2013-08-27T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44728"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T07:12:22","slug":"afrihost-dismisses-acquisition-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44728\/afrihost-dismisses-acquisition-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost dismisses acquisition rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1822-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> has dismissed rumours that it may be an acquisition target for <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN<\/a> after it launched mobile data products in partnership with Africa&#8217;s largest operator.<\/p>\n<p>The Tech Financials blog recently reported that Afrihost may be one of the companies which MTN may be looking to purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrihost will be a perfect fit in MTN South Africa and will simplify hosting solutions for MTN customers and enable convergence of voice, video and data communications,\u201d Tech Financials reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, Afrihost director <a title=\"Greg Payne\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1823-Greg-Payne\">Greg Payne<\/a> dismissed the report and related rumours, saying that there is no truth to this as far as Afrihost is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that Afrihost has not engaged in any talks of this nature with MTN thus far,\u201d said Payne.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost\u00a0launched its first mobile data products on 20 August 2013, with\u00a0Payne saying that the group&#8217;s entrance into the mobile data market is aimed at making Internet access more affordable to more South Africans.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Afrihost Mobile<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost\u2019s R22 million mobile bet\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/85051-afrihosts-r22-million-mobile-bet.html\"><strong>Afrihost\u2019s R22 million mobile bet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost mobile pricing benchmarked: how cheap is R29 per GB?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/84543-afrihost-mobile-pricing-benchmarked-how-cheap-is-r29-per-gb.html\"><strong>Afrihost mobile pricing benchmarked: how cheap is R29 per GB?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost Mobile: R29 per GB\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/84513-afrihost-mobile-r29-per-gb.html\"><strong>Afrihost Mobile: R29 per GB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost has not been in discussions with MTN regarding a potential acquisition, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1944,1946,26,28],"class_list":["post-44728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-afrihost","tag-greg-payne","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44872,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728\/revisions\/44872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}