{"id":36854,"date":"2018-01-24T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rura-authorizes-acquisition-of-tigo-rwanda-ltd-by\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T08:23:01","slug":"rura-authorizes-acquisition-of-tigo-rwanda-ltd-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rura-authorizes-acquisition-of-tigo-rwanda-ltd-by\/","title":{"rendered":"RURA authorizes acquisition of Tigo Rwanda Ltd by Airtel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This decision effectively approves the agreement which had been reached between Millicom Group and Bharti Airtel Group, subject to the approval by RURA  Board.<\/p>\n<p>The consolidation of the two operators (Airtel and Tigo) is expected to bring industry stability, improved quality of services and product innovation for the benefit of the consumers.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition shall not affect the existing subscribers of TIGO Rwanda. They will continue to be served, seamlessly, during and after the consolidation. Subscribers will not be required to change their existing TIGO telephone numbers and existing TIGO cash services will not be affected. It is the primary responsibility of the Regulatory Authority to protect the consumers during this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda through Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) has officially approved the transfer of all shares of Millicom International Cellular S.A in TIGO Rwanda to Airtel Rwanda Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36854"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36854"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}