{"id":1008015,"date":"2026-05-15T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008015"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:54:17","slug":"mittal-to-hand-over-reins-of-airtel-in-next-decade-desires-bharti-telecom-regains-51-stake-in-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/mittal-to-hand-over-reins-of-airtel-in-next-decade-desires-bharti-telecom-regains-51-stake-in-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Mittal to hand over reins of Airtel in next decade, desires Bharti Telecom regains 51% stake in co"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal plans to hand over the reins of Bharti Airtel in the next decade and desires that promoter firm Bharti Telecom regains over 50% stake in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by the Mittal family and Singtel Group, Bharti Telecom at present holds 40.47% stake in Airtel.<\/p>\n<p>The promoter firms, including Bharti Telecom, the Mittal family holding firm Indian Continent Investment, the Singtel Group firm Pastel, and others jointly hold a 48.87% stake in Airtel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal plans to hand over the reins of Bharti Airtel in the next decade and desires that promoter firm Bharti Telecom regains over 50% stake in the company. Owned by the Mittal family and Singtel Group, Bharti Telecom at present holds 40.47% stake in Airtel. The promoter firms, including Bharti Telecom, the Mittal family holding firm Indian Continent Investment, the Singtel Group firm Pastel, and others jointly hold a 48.87% stake in Airtel.<\/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-1008015","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\/1008015","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=1008015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008038,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008015\/revisions\/1008038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}