{"id":14886,"date":"2025-10-07T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/uaes-e-offers-to-increase-stake-in-vodafone-to-20\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:19:02","slug":"uaes-e-offers-to-increase-stake-in-vodafone-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/uaes-e-offers-to-increase-stake-in-vodafone-to-20\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE&#8217;s e&#038; offers to increase stake in Vodafone to 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inner innermixmatch\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgengine.khaleejtimes.com\/khaleejtimes\/import\/images\/f584f2c8-62b5-4f52-9a7a-667bdf1bf3b5-org.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=800&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"\" height=\"387\" width=\"620\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<p>UAE&#8217;s e&amp; has submitted an offer to increase its stake in Vodafone to 20%, e&amp;&#8217;s CEO Hatem Dowidar told CNBC Arabia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company formerly known as Etisalat, e&amp; has been gradually building up its stake in the British telecoms company ever since it took a 9.8% stake for $4.4 billion in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Its ownership as of April stood at 14.61%, according to an SEC filing.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE operator&#8217;s cooperation with Vodafone is awaiting regulatory approvals in countries where the British company operates, which &#8220;include an agreement to regulate relations between the two companies, and also the possibility of increasing our stake to 20%,&#8221; Dowidar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hopeful to get these approvals in the next 3 or 4 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"also_read_custom\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/business\/uae-es-h1-revenues-rise-1-1-to-dh26-6-billion\">UAE: e&amp;&#8217;s H1 revenues rise 1.1% to Dh26.6 billion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"also_read_custom\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/business\/uaes-e-enters-central-and-east-europe-buys-majority-stake-in-ppf-telecom\">UAE&#8217;s e&amp; enters Central and East Europe, buys majority stake in PPF Telecom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/business\/uaes-e-offers-to-increase-stake-in-vodafone-by-20\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE&#8217;s e&amp; has submitted an offer to increase its stake in Vodafone to 20%, e&amp;&#8217;s CEO Hatem Dowidar told CNBC Arabia on Wednesday. The company formerly known as Etisalat, e&amp; has been gradually building up its stake in the British telecoms company ever since it took a 9.8% stake for $4.4 billion in May 2022. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-business-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}