{"id":1005044,"date":"2026-04-27T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005044"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:47:30","slug":"airtel-pushes-investment-in-core-telecom-businesses-scales-data-centres-and-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/airtel-pushes-investment-in-core-telecom-businesses-scales-data-centres-and-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel pushes investment in core-telecom businesses, scales data centres and fintech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s recent investment moves point to a calibrated shift in strategy, with Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Bharti Airtel tightening its focus on businesses that sit close to its core telecom franchise after an earlier phase of wider diversification at the group level. <\/p>\n<p>For much of the 2000s and early 2010s, Bharti Enterprises had expanded into multiple unrelated sectors including retail through its joint venture with Walmart, insurance with AXA, and agri and food processing. Most of these ventures were eventually exited or scaled down over time, with the group pruning its portfolio and reallocating capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s recent investment moves point to a calibrated shift in strategy, with Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Bharti Airtel tightening its focus on businesses that sit close to its core telecom franchise after an earlier phase of wider diversification at the group level. For much of the 2000s and early 2010s, Bharti Enterprises had expanded into multiple unrelated sectors including retail through its joint venture with Walmart, insurance with AXA, and agri and food processing. Most of these ventures were eventually exited or scaled down over time, with the group pruning its portfolio and reallocating capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005053,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005044\/revisions\/1005053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}