{"id":4446,"date":"2024-01-25T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/uk-says-emirates-backed-stake-in-vodafone-poses-national-security-risk-vodafone\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:02:57","slug":"uk-says-emirates-backed-stake-in-vodafone-poses-national-security-risk-vodafone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/uk-says-emirates-backed-stake-in-vodafone-poses-national-security-risk-vodafone\/","title":{"rendered":"UK says Emirates-backed stake in Vodafone poses national security risk | Vodafone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<header><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/vodafonegroup\" data-link-name=\"article section\" class=\"dcr-amp-1gmxza8\">Vodafone<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" class=\"dcr-amp-1jdmmgi\">\n<p>UAE firm\u2019s increased investment prompts Cabinet Office order for security panel at telecoms company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-amp-1lu20ex\"><\/p>\n<p>The stake in Vodafone held by a United Arab Emirates-backed telecoms group poses a national security risk to the UK, the government said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"dcr-amp-1lu20ex\"><\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Office issued a notice late on Wednesday warning that the 14.6% stake held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/vodafonegroup\">Vodafone<\/a> by Emirates Telecoms, which is also known as e&amp;, amounted to a security concern given Vodafone\u2019s strategic role in the country\u2019s telecommunications services.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"dcr-amp-1lu20ex\"><\/p>\n<p>It has now ordered a \u201cnational security committee\u201d to be set up at Vodafone, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/jan\/25\/emirates-backed-stake-vodafone-security-risk-uae-uk-government\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone UAE firm\u2019s increased investment prompts Cabinet Office order for security panel at telecoms company The stake in Vodafone held by a United Arab Emirates-backed telecoms group poses a national security risk to the UK, the government said. The Cabinet Office issued a notice late on Wednesday warning that the 14.6% stake held in Vodafone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,184],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}