{"id":39229,"date":"2014-11-13T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=39229"},"modified":"2014-11-13T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:19:26","slug":"att-to-buy-mexico-telco-for-us1-7b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=39229","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T to buy Mexico telco for US$1.7b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\/MEXICO CITY: AT&amp;Ts US$1.7 billion (RM5.66 billion) agreement to buy Iusacell, Mexicos No. 3 cellular operator, puts it in the unfamiliar position of market underdog, owning an asset that may require billions in investment to catch up to the markets two larger players. But analysts and investors say the deal could be a cheap way to get a foothold in Latin Americas second-largest economy and learn the markets contours before plotting more ambitious acquisitions. Mexico has welcomed AT&amp;T with open arms. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1un29WL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\/MEXICO CITY: AT&amp;Ts US$1.7 billion (RM5.66 billion) agreement to buy Iusacell, Mexicos No. 3 cellular operator, puts it in the unfamiliar position of market underdog,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39230,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229\/revisions\/39230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}