{"id":776,"date":"2007-05-14T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=776"},"modified":"2007-05-14T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:16:20","slug":"yacom-sold-to-vodafone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Ya.com sold to Vodafone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Ya.com\">Ya.com<\/a> one of the companies I founded and sold to German giant <a href=\"http:\/\/fon.gs\/dt\">Deutsche Telekom<\/a>  has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegeography.com\/cu\/article.php?article_id=17811&#038;email=html\">sold to Vodafone for 400 to 500 million euros<\/a>.  I just heard about this and have not done research but I am pretty sure that this acquisition is very important not so much for its value but because it means that Vodafone has finally seen value in the fixed line business.  My theory is that the world of macro cells is over and that as we evolve to high speed data in urban centers micro cells will be the norm and for that you need to be a fiber\/DSL operator like Ya.com.  What worries me is that Ron Sommer of DT promised to me when he bought Ya.com that he would not change its brand, and that promise was kept.  Will Vodafone keep the Ya.com brand?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPS:  doing this post i discovered that DT has a huge URL in English that is this one http:\/\/www.telekom3.de\/dtag\/cms\/content\/dt\/en\/6908;jsessionid=2358FA06CFB3839AE9526B7CDE62B155  so DT here\u00b4s a gift for you, try www.fon.gs\/dt, it iwill be simpler<\/p>\n<p>PS2:  will we make a deal with Vodafone and call it Vodafon?<\/p>\n<p>PS3:  Guillermo Mercader did a great job in this deal.  I recruited him at the very beginning of Ya.com as a junior financial person and he rose all the way to the top of the company.  Congratulations Guillermo!<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=776\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya.com one of the companies I founded and sold to German giant Deutsche Telekom has now been sold to Vodafone for 400 to 500 million euros. I just heard about this and have not done research but I am pretty sure that this acquisition is very important not so much for its value but because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}