{"id":51086,"date":"2013-12-18T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51086"},"modified":"2013-12-18T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:55:04","slug":"mweb-is-merger-rumours-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/51086\/mweb-is-merger-rumours-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Mweb-IS merger rumours surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour has it that Dimension Data and Naspers are in talks regarding a merger between Mweb and Internet Solutions (IS), according to a report on Techcentral.<\/p>\n<p>Despite denials from executives at Dimension Data and Internet Solutions, the report said that a deal leaving Naspers with 20% of Mweb while Dimension Data held the remaining 80% could be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for comment on the report, both Dimension Data and Naspers declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the Group\u2019s long-standing policy that we don\u2019t comment on market rumour or speculation about Dimension Data, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries,\u201d a spokesperson for Dimension Data told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment was echoed by a Naspers spokesperson, who said, \u201cIt is our company policy not to comment on press speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Mweb news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MWEB 20Mbps and 40Mbps uncapped VDSL prices revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71312-mweb-20mbps-and-40mbps-uncapped-vdsl-prices-revealed.html\"><strong>Mweb20Mbps and 40Mbps uncapped VDSL prices revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telecoms consolidation fever in South Africa?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/78052-telecoms-consolidation-fever-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Telecoms consolidation fever in South Africa?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mweb uncapped business VDSL prices revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/32377\/mweb-uncapped-business-vdsl-prices-revealed\/\"><strong>Mweb uncapped business VDSL prices revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MWEB hits back at Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/30760\/mweb-hits-back-at-telkom\/\"><strong>Mweb hits back at Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MWEB Business launches Uncapped ADSL Lite\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/24013\/mweb-business-launches-uncapped-adsl-lite\/\"><strong>Mweb Business launches Uncapped ADSL Lite<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is talk of a possible deal between Naspers and Dimension Data over Mweb, according to a media report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,94,7237,38,107],"class_list":["post-51086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-dimension-data","tag-internet-solutions-is","tag-mweb","tag-naspers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51087,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086\/revisions\/51087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}