{"id":159235,"date":"2019-08-30T18:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=253900"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:10:54","slug":"vodafone-plays-down-prospect-of-spanish-fixed-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/30\/vodafone-plays-down-prospect-of-spanish-fixed-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone plays down prospect of Spanish fixed sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tVodafone Spain denied it had put its fixed network up for sale, as business newspaper Expansion reported the operator was mulling several offers for the asset.<\/p>\n<p>Its fixed and cable network in the country is estimated to be worth around \u20ac1.2 billion with a number of parties thought to be interested in acquiring it.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement to Expansion, Vodafone Spain denied it had proactively sought buyers for the unit in its entirety, but did not dismiss the prospect of a partial sale. It added \u201cpossibilities are always being analysed and studied to find efficiencies and improve the profitability provided by assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company already has a deal in place with rival Masmovil to share fibre connections and cut costs associated with providing the broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has become something of a problem market for the operator in recent years with senior executives regularly citing the country among its most challenging in Europe [1] due to fierce competition and cost cutting measures [2] from rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, it announced it would cut around 20 per cent of  [3]its workforce in Spain due to cost pressures.<\/p>\n<p>As it looks to cut overheads across its footprint, Vodafone Group has made a number of network sharing agreements in recent months and is in the process of spinning off its mobile towers into a separate company with a view to cashing-in on that asset.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/vodafone-reports-subdued-quarter-as-colao-signs-off\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/vodafone-confirms-tower-spin-off-plan-revenue-dips\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/vodafone-spain-lines-up-job-cuts\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Spain denied it had put its fixed network up for sale, as business newspaper &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/vodafone-plays-down-prospect-of-spanish-fixed-sale\/\">Vodafone plays down prospect of Spanish fixed sale<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/30\/vodafone-plays-down-prospect-of-spanish-fixed-sale\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Fqj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159308,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159235\/revisions\/159308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}