{"id":548896,"date":"2006-05-23T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548896-cell-number-sells-for-2-8m.html"},"modified":"2006-05-23T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T12:20:53","slug":"cell-number-sells-for-2-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548896-cell-number-sells-for-2-8m.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell number sells for $2.8m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Eight participants at an auction dinner held in Doha by the national telecommunications company Qtel pushed up the stakes for the number 6666666, which was being offered for the first time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The identity of the highest bidder was not divulged. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Proceeds from the sale will go towards a charity project to upgrade the sewerage system in one of the Gulf Arab state&#8217;s less-privileged regions, it added. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Qatar has the world&#8217;s third largest gas reserves, and is currently enjoying an unprecedented economic boom thanks to record energy prices. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It has a population of 750 000, of whom only some 150 000 are nationals. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special cellphone number has been auctioned in Qatar for 10 million riyals (US$2.8m), the state-owned news agency QNA said on Tuesday.<\/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-548896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548896"}],"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=548896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}