{"id":15568,"date":"2012-10-15T05:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/virgin-mobile-eyes-100-mln-fund-raising-to-spur-expansion-ft\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T05:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:58:57","slug":"virgin-mobile-eyes-100-mln-fund-raising-to-spur-expansion-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/virgin-mobile-eyes-100-mln-fund-raising-to-spur-expansion-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mobile eyes $100 mln fund raising to spur expansion -FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Virgin Mobile is raising up to<br \/>\n$100 million from investors and private equity groups to roll<br \/>\nout the Virgin Mobile brand to at least six new markets, the<br \/>\nFinancial Times reported on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator that aims to<br \/>\n reach $3 billion in worldwide revenues by 2020, is seeking to<br \/>\nexpand to Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Poland, South Africa and<br \/>\nOman. It currently has 18 million subscribers in nine countries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Richard Branson, head of the London-based Virgin Group, was<br \/>\nquoted by the FT as saying that he hoped to expand Virgin<br \/>\nMobile&#8217;s central and eastern European operation from Poland,<br \/>\nwhich he will launch in 10 days, to Russia, and perhaps Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re waiting for a licence in Russian for (Virgin Atlantic)<br \/>\nflights to Moscow. If we&#8217;re successful in that, it will help us<br \/>\npush into Russia proper&#8221; with Virgin Mobile, he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Virgin Mobile is raising up to $100 million from investors and private equity groups to roll out the Virgin Mobile brand to at least six new markets, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Virgin Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator that aims to reach $3 billion in worldwide revenues by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}