{"id":459,"date":"2007-06-29T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-29T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:40:00","slug":"telkom-disappointed-with-bcx-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/459-telkom-disappointed-with-bcx-ruling.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom disappointed with BCX ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telkom.co.za\">Telkom<\/a> said that it is disappointed with the ruling, but that it will explore other opportunities in the fixed-mobile and converged services space. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Telkom embarked on the acquisition to diversify its revenues and strengthen its ability to provide full-service solutions and products in anticipation of future market needs. It is therefore disappointed with the ruling, but Telkom will continue to explore opportunities in areas such as fixed-mobile and other converged services,&rdquo; the company said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Telkom is confident that its strategies will enable the Company to provide the full spectrum of ICT services, and sustain long-term value creation,&rdquo; it concluded.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom said that it is still awaiting the Tribunal&rsquo;s reasons and will consider its options in relation to the Tribunal decision.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79723\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition Tribunal ruled on 28 June 2007 to prohibit the proposed acquisition by Telkom of the entire issued share capital of The Business Connexion Group Limited (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153BCX\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). <\/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-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}