{"id":443,"date":"2007-06-28T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-06T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T07:34:22","slug":"telkom-bcx-deal-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/443-telkom-bcx-deal-blocked.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom BCX deal blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">According to Financial Mail journalist Duncan McLeod, \u201cthe competition tribunal has prohibited Telkom\u2019s proposed R2,4bn acquisition of JSE-listed IT services group Business Connexion (BCX). The tribunal says the reasons for the decision will be given in due course.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Telkom has invested a great deal of time and resources in the possible acquisition of Business Connexion, and this can be seen as a definite blow to the fixed line provider.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Telkom\u2019s Reuben September however pointed out that Business Connexion was not Telkom\u2019s only option and that they are already exploring other opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79639\">Comments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed R2,4bn acquisition of Business Connexion by Telkom has been blocked by the Competition Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}