{"id":47815,"date":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/worldport-to-buy-dominican-phone-operator\/"},"modified":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-05-27T01:43:56","slug":"worldport-to-buy-dominican-phone-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/05\/27\/worldport-to-buy-dominican-phone-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldPort to buy Dominican phone operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All American Cables and Radio Inc., which has a public telephone operation  concession, is in the process of being sold to WorldPort Communications  Inc. for a combination of cash and stock.   WorldPort Chief Financial Officer Phillip Magiera said the company  is also clearing the acquisition of EnerTel NV of the Netherlands, in a  filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  American Cables owns part of a network of undersea fiber optic cables  that connect the Dominican Republic to the U.S., Spain, Italy, Colombia,  Venezuela and various Caribbean islands. The company maintains an interconnection  agreement with Codetel, the largest Dominican telephone company, which  provides for the origination and termination of traffic throughout the  country.  The Dominican Republic is one of the highest-volume international long  distance routes for the U.S., accounting for over 550 million minutes per  year, WorldPort said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All American Cables and Radio Inc., which has a public telephone operation concession, is in the process of being sold to WorldPort Communications Inc. for a combination of cash and stock. WorldPort Chief Financial Officer Phillip Magiera said the company is also clearing the acquisition of EnerTel NV of the Netherlands, in a filing with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/05\/27\/worldport-to-buy-dominican-phone-operator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}