{"id":87006,"date":"2015-05-12T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=87006"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T07:22:10","slug":"altron-close-to-disposal-of-altech-autopage-gsm-customer-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/87006\/altron-close-to-disposal-of-altech-autopage-gsm-customer-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Altron close to disposal of Altech Autopage GSM customer base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altron has advised that it is in an advanced stage of negotiations regarding the potential disposal of Altech Autopage\u2019s GSM subscriber bases.<\/p>\n<p>Altech is a third party mobile services provider, and parent company, Altron, said its decision to dispose of these subscriber bases has been based on, among other things, the impacts of the the on-going Mobile Termination Ratereductions, as well as continued\u00a0 industry and consumer deflationary pressures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accordingly this business has been classified as a discontinued operation for purposes of the company\u2019s 2015 annual financial statements,&#8221; Altron said.<\/p>\n<p>The JSE-listed Altron said in October that it aimed to reposition Altech Autopage to offer increased ISP services targeted at enterprise clients.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Altron<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55803\/retrenchments-at-altech-autopage\/\"><strong>Retrenchments at Altech Autopage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/70527\/altron-targets-isp-services-through-autopage\/\"><strong>Altron targets ISP services through Autopage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/69315\/altron-expects-earnings-drop\/\">Altron expects earnings drop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altron has advised that it is in an advanced stage of negotiations regarding the potential disposal of Altech Autopage\u2019s GSM subscriber bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,1949,309],"class_list":["post-87006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-altech-autopage","tag-altron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87006","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=87006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87008,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87006\/revisions\/87008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}