{"id":8708,"date":"2012-03-30T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:44:23","slug":"jasco-buys-arc-telecoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/8708\/jasco-buys-arc-telecoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasco buys ARC Telecoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

JSE-listed Jasco<\/a> has acquired ARC Telecoms, a provider of telecoms and IT services to small- and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n

ARC Telecoms<\/a> was launched in September 2010, and focuses on the small and medium business (SMB) sector with a range of converged voice and IP data telecommunications products.<\/p>\n

The company currently has 30 employees, with a head office in Johannesburg and a satellite team in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

ARC Telecoms was one of the companies which received an investment from World of Avatar<\/a>, headed up by Alan Knott-Craig Junior<\/a>. The company\u2019s shareholding was split between the three directors \u2013 Steve Briggs<\/a>, Michele McCann and Paven Chetty \u2013 and World of Avatar.<\/p>\n

Details about the acquisition remain sketchy, but it is rumoured that current CEO, Steve Briggs will leave the company, and that Chetty will take over as head of ARC Telecoms.<\/p>\n

The acquisition of ARC Telecoms will give Jasco a better presence in the small- and medium-sized business sector, with the potential to increase the product offerings to ARC Telecom\u2019s established user-base.<\/p>\n

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ARC Telecoms in acquisition talks?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jasco group has acquired ARC Telecoms in a move which will strengthen their telecoms presence in the SME market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[185,439,26,893],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-acquisition","tag-arc-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-jasco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}