British luxury smartphone-maker Vertu will be liquidated, following a failed bid to save the company.<\/p>\n
The BBC reported<\/strong><\/a> that the company – which sold phones costing well over R100,000 – will lay off almost 200 employees as part of the liquidation process.<\/p>\n A company spokesman told the BCC that Vertu has “gone into liquidation and I’m not being paid by them anymore”.<\/p>\n The Constellation<\/strong><\/a>, one of Vertu’s most recent smartphones, was set to launch at\u00a0South African Vertu stores\u00a0in Sandton Mall and the V&A Waterfront.<\/p>\n British luxury smartphone-maker Vertu will be liquidated, following a failed bid to save the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":195648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[2088],"class_list":["post-219746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-vertu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219748,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219746\/revisions\/219748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0What it really means when your phone says 4G+<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"