{"id":547322,"date":"2005-11-21T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547322-mtn-awarded-49-in-iran-s-2nd-mobile-operator.html"},"modified":"2005-11-21T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:38:37","slug":"mtn-awarded-49-in-iran-s-2nd-mobile-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547322-mtn-awarded-49-in-iran-s-2nd-mobile-operator.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN awarded 49% in Iran&#8217;s 2nd mobile operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">With the addition of Iran, MTN&#8217;s footprint extends to ten countries &#8211; nine of which are in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria and Uganda.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Given the near-saturation levels in the South Africa mobile telephony market, Iran is expected to be one of MTN&#8217;s most important markets as it continues to expand in Africa and the Middle East.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MTN, which pipped the Turkish firm Turkcell to get a stake in Irancell, on Monday paid a 300 million euro licence fee to the Iranian government ahead of the issuing of the cellular communications licence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Ministry of Communications and IT is currently in the process of issuing the licence to the Irancell consortium. A further announcement will be made when appropriate, the South African group said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group announced on Monday that, as a 49% shareholder in Irancell, it will participate in Iran&#8217;s second mobile operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547322"}],"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=547322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}