{"id":2609,"date":"2008-01-22T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-22T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:43:00","slug":"telkom-approached-by-oger-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/2609-telkom-approached-by-oger-telecom.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom approached by Oger Telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;While Telkom is not presently in discussions with Oger, the Board of Telkom will consider the Oger approach along with other alternatives as part of the review,&quot; Telkom said. <\/p>\n<p>It added that it would in due course communicate to its <br \/>shareholders the outcome of a review of the group&#39;s mobile strategy that was announced in November and that was continuing. <\/p>\n<p>The group reiterated that it was pursuing all options to enhance the company&#39;s strategic positioning and service delivery in the converging fixed-mobile telecommunications industry.<\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Dubai, Oger Telecom, which indirectly controls about 75% of Cell C, is described as an emerging markets telecommunications group. <\/p>\n<p>It is controlled by Saudi Oger and, apart from operations in Saudi Arabia, also operates in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. <\/p>\n<p>Telkom shares closed 7.4% higher at R 135.11 after hitting a low of R 115.00 in early trade on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=102183\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom said on Tuesday it has received a non-binding expression of interest from Middle East group<br \/>\nOger Telecom Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}