{"id":1006609,"date":"2026-05-04T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006609"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:23:46","slug":"vodafone-idea-eyes-%e2%82%b925000-crore-sbi-led-funding-after-agr-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/vodafone-idea-eyes-%e2%82%b925000-crore-sbi-led-funding-after-agr-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea eyes \u20b925,000 crore SBI-led funding after AGR relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: A State Bank of India-led consortium is considering extending \u20b925,000-crore debt funding to Vodafone Idea, persons aware of the details told ET, signalling improved lender confidence in the telco after the government slashed its dues by 27% last week. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s third-largest telco, which has laid out a three-year turnaround programme, is seeking a \u20b925,000-crore term loan and another \u20b910,000 crore in short-term working capital requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: A State Bank of India-led consortium is considering extending \u20b925,000-crore debt funding to Vodafone Idea, persons aware of the details told ET, signalling improved lender confidence in the telco after the government slashed its dues by 27% last week. The country&#8217;s third-largest telco, which has laid out a three-year turnaround programme, is seeking a \u20b925,000-crore term loan and another \u20b910,000 crore in short-term working capital requirements.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006609","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=1006609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006625,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006609\/revisions\/1006625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}