{"id":1008011,"date":"2026-05-15T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008011"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:50:58","slug":"bharti-airtel-plans-%e2%82%b928000-crore-share-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/bharti-airtel-plans-%e2%82%b928000-crore-share-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel plans \u20b928,000 crore share swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s board on Wednesday approved a \u20b928,220 crore share-swap deal with Indian Continent Investment (ICIL) to raise its stake in UK-listed subsidiary Airtel Africa, while increasing ICIL\u2019s holding in Bharti Airtel by about 2.3 percentage points in one of India\u2019s largest related-party transactions. <\/p>\n<p>ICIL is a Mauritius-based investment entity functioning as a family office investment vehicle for the Sunil Bharti Mittal family, a promoter group entity of Bharti Airtel. Analysts termed the move positive for Airtel, saying the Street had expected an all-cash transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s board on Wednesday approved a \u20b928,220 crore share-swap deal with Indian Continent Investment (ICIL) to raise its stake in UK-listed subsidiary Airtel Africa, while increasing ICIL\u2019s holding in Bharti Airtel by about 2.3 percentage points in one of India\u2019s largest related-party transactions. ICIL is a Mauritius-based investment entity functioning as a family office investment vehicle for the Sunil Bharti Mittal family, a promoter group entity of Bharti Airtel. Analysts termed the move positive for Airtel, saying the Street had expected an all-cash transaction.<\/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-1008011","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\/1008011","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=1008011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008026,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008011\/revisions\/1008026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}