{"id":67100,"date":"2014-08-29T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67100"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:17:47","slug":"telkom-mtn-discussions-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/67100\/telkom-mtn-discussions-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom MTN discussions ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has advised that it remains in discussions with MTN South Africa regarding the potential extension of their existing roaming agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The deal would include bilateral roaming and outsourcing of the operation of Telkom\u00b4s radio access network, which if successfully concluded may have a material effect on the price of Telkom&#8217;s securities, the group said in a statement on Friday 29 August)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The parties will update shareholders as soon as they receive the appropriate legal and regulatory approvals,&#8221; Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>MTN signed an agreement with Telkom in March 2014, which would see it take over financial and operational responsibility for the rollout and operation of Telkom\u2019s radio access network (RAN).<\/p>\n<p>In April, Telkom said it hoped to conclude the deal within three-to-four months.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom and MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MTN-Telkom tie up 3 to 4 months away\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/56369\/mtn-telkom-tie-up-3-to-4-months-away\/\"><strong>MTN-Telkom tie up 3 to 4 months away<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom and MTN tie up network agreement\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/54074\/telkom-and-mtn-tie-up-network-agreement\/\"><strong>Telkom and MTN tie up network agreement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom confirms talks with MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/53996\/telkom-confirms-talks-with-mtn\/\"><strong>Telkom confirms talks with MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MTN, Telkom Mobile network sharing deal here soon: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/53786\/mtn-telkom-mobile-network-sharing-deal-here-soon-report\/\">MTN, Telkom Mobile network sharing deal here soon: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has advised that it remains in discussions with MTN South Africa regarding the potential extension of their existing roaming agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,28,65],"class_list":["post-67100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67100","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=67100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67102,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67100\/revisions\/67102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}