{"id":1008070,"date":"2026-05-15T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008070"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:46:54","slug":"bharti-airtels-next-decade-mittal-outlines-tighter-control-in-india-bigger-africa-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/bharti-airtels-next-decade-mittal-outlines-tighter-control-in-india-bigger-africa-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel\u2019s next decade: Mittal outlines tighter control in India, bigger Africa bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Ltd plans to raise its stake in Airtel Africa Plc to as much as 90% over the coming years, chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Thursday, outlining a long-term capital allocation and ownership roadmap as he prepares for a generational transition within the group.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came a day after Bharti Airtel announced a \u20b928,200 crore share-swap deal to acquire promoter-group entity Indian Continent Investment Ltd\u2019s (ICIL) 16.3% stake in Airtel Africa. In exchange, Airtel will issue about 146.7 million shares, representing a 2.4% stake in Bharti Airtel. The transaction will increase Airtel\u2019s holding in the Africa business to 79%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Ltd plans to raise its stake in Airtel Africa Plc to as much as 90% over the coming years, chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Thursday, outlining a long-term capital allocation and ownership roadmap as he prepares for a generational transition within the group. The comments came a day after Bharti Airtel announced a \u20b928,200 crore share-swap deal to acquire promoter-group entity Indian Continent Investment Ltd\u2019s (ICIL) 16.3% stake in Airtel Africa. In exchange, Airtel will issue about 146.7 million shares, representing a 2.4% stake in Bharti Airtel. The transaction will increase Airtel\u2019s holding in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008070","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008071,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008070\/revisions\/1008071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}