{"id":3265,"date":"2008-03-25T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-25T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T10:57:00","slug":"vodafone-denies-mtn-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/3265-vodafone-denies-mtn-talks.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone denies MTN talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/3254.html\" target=\"_blank\">Business Times article<\/a> suggested that &ldquo;global cellular giant Vodafone is in talks to buy a multibillion-rand stake in local cellphone operator MTN&rsquo;s international operations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>MTN&rsquo;s share price jumped 3% on the back of these rumors, but a recent Reuters report may undo all of the gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNews\/idUSWEB956620080325\">According to Reuters<\/a>, Vodafone said that &lsquo;it had had no contact or discussions with South African-based mobile phone group MTN about acquiring a stake in its international operations.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have had no contact,&quot; a Vodafone spokesman is quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>MTN was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=111202\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has denied that it is in talks with MTN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}