{"id":552534,"date":"2007-06-11T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552534-telkom-surges-on-juicy-rumours-2.html"},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:00:58","slug":"telkom-surges-on-juicy-rumours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552534-telkom-surges-on-juicy-rumours-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom surges on juicy rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A dealer told I-Net Bridge that rumours of a special dividend or the approval of a proposed acquisition were doing their rounds. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Telkom&#8217;s share price could be driven by rumours that the Competition Tribunal might approve its Business Connexion (BCX) deal, or that the company could declare a big special dividend,&quot; a dealer told I-Net Bridge. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom plans to buy out IT company BCX. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom&#8217;s share price struck an all-time high of R186.35 in early trade, a gain of 5.8% from its previous close. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vodacom, which is majority-owned by Telkom, announced on Sunday that it had agreed a deal with Naspers&#8217;s MultiChoice pay-TV division to distribute a cheaper package of channels. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">At 10:58, shares in Telkom were up by 3.46%, or R6.09, to R182.21.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=77850\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares in fixed-line phone operator Telkom (TKG) rose as high as 5.8% in early trade on Monday. <\/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-552534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552534"}],"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=552534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}