{"id":744618,"date":"2013-04-02T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=410465"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T17:05:54","slug":"verizon-and-att-could-partner-to-acquire-vodafone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744618","title":{"rendered":"Verizon and AT&amp;T could partner to acquire Vodafone"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/verizon-att-vodafone-buyout-rumor-410465\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/vodafone1110228131327.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=405&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C405\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon AT&amp;T Vodafone Buyout\" title=\"Vodafone\" \/><\/a><\/center>A new report claims that two unlikely partners may team up to acquire the world's second-largest mobile carrier. <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/2013\/04\/02\/1443352\/vodafone-verizon-a-245bn-solution\/\">According to the <em>Financial Times<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) are working on a breakup bid for European carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vod\">VOD<\/a>) that would value the company at $245 billion, a 40% premium over its current valuation of $115. The deal would see Verizon take control of the 45% stake Vodafone currently owns in Verizon Wireless, while Vodafone's business outside of the U.S. would go to AT&amp;T. Earlier reports suggested that Verizon and Vodafone were <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/verizon-vodafone-merger-buyout-bloomberg-360464\/\">actively discussing ways to resolve their relationship<\/a> in the form of a merger or possibly a full or partial buyout.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/0UnkXCAYp2g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report claims that two unlikely partners may team up to acquire the world&#8217;s second-largest mobile carrier. According to the Financial Times, Verizon (VZ) and AT&amp;T (T) are working on a breakup bid for European carrier Vodafone (VOD) that would value the company at $245 billion, a 40% premium over its current valuation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37HY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}