{"id":179000,"date":"2019-11-27T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=263188"},"modified":"2019-11-27T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:34:09","slug":"orange-rubbishes-deutsche-telekom-merger-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/27\/orange-rubbishes-deutsche-telekom-merger-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange rubbishes Deutsche Telekom merger talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tOrange strenuously denied any discussions regarding a merger with Deutsche Telekom were taking place, after media reports claimed a tie-up was being considered by the German operator group.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today (27 November) German newspaper Handelsblatt reported senior management at Deutsche Telekom were exploring the possibility of a merger deal with Orange.<\/p>\n<p>The publication\u2019s sources claimed Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s plans were at an early stage, but had been discussed by board members.<\/p>\n<p>It added the two companies had a history of partnering on initiatives [1] and there had been meetings between senior executives earlier in the year. Previously the companies were joint owners of UK operator EE.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the potential make-up of a deal or rationale behind the move were sparse.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Mobile World Live, an Orange representative said: \u201cThere is no project or discussion about a Deutsche Telekom-Orange merger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Telekom declined to comment.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/orange-dt-unveil-smart-speaker-5g-gathers-pace\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange strenuously denied any discussions regarding a merger with Deutsche Telekom were taking place, after &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/orange-rubbishes-deutsche-telekom-merger-talk\/\">Orange rubbishes Deutsche Telekom merger talk<\/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\/11\/27\/orange-rubbishes-deutsche-telekom-merger-talk\/\">\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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2151,2,2493,7],"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-Kz6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179000"}],"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=179000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179001,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179000\/revisions\/179001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}