{"id":51099,"date":"2013-12-19T00:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51099"},"modified":"2013-12-19T00:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:36:23","slug":"mweb-ceo-sniffs-at-is-merger-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/51099\/mweb-ceo-sniffs-at-is-merger-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mweb CEO sniffs at IS merger rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMweb is not for sale,\u201d the CEO of Mweb ISP, Derek Hershaw, has told MyBroadband in response to questions about a potential merge between Mweb and Internet Solutions (IS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure where this is coming from but it\u2019s just \u2018market rumour\u2019,\u201d Hershaw said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report, there are talks of a deal between Mweb\u2019s parent company, Naspers, and Dimension Data subsidiary Internet Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The rumour is that Naspers would retain 20% of Mweb while Dimension Data held the remainder.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dimension Data and Naspers declined to answer questions about possible discussion, saying that it is company policy not to comment on market rumour or speculation in the media.<\/p>\n<p>This article <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/93977-mweb-not-for-sale-isp-ceo.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/93977-mweb-not-for-sale-isp-ceo.html\">first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Mweb news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/51086\/mweb-is-merger-rumours-surface\/\">Mweb-IS merger rumours surface<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Mweb ISP has provided a definitive answer to the question of talks around a possible merge of Mweb and Internet Solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2179,26,4075,38],"class_list":["post-51099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-derek-hershaw","tag-headline","tag-internet-solution","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099","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=51099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51103,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions\/51103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}