{"id":1008342,"date":"2026-05-18T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008342"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:47:08","slug":"aditya-birla-group-to-invest-%e2%82%b94730-crore-in-vodafone-idea-as-revival-signal-strengthens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/aditya-birla-group-to-invest-%e2%82%b94730-crore-in-vodafone-idea-as-revival-signal-strengthens\/","title":{"rendered":"Aditya Birla Group to invest \u20b94,730 crore in Vodafone Idea as revival signal strengthens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya Birla Group will invest \u20b94,730 crore (about $500 million) in Vodafone Idea (Vi), reinforcing the debt-laden telecom company\u2019s financial health and its capability to continue challenging bigger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. <\/p>\n<p>The Vi board Saturday approved a preferential allotment of convertible warrants to Suryaja Investments, a Singapore-based entity of Aditya Birla Group, marking a fresh capital infusion from the company\u2019s promoters. Upon full conversion, Suryaja Investments will hold up to 3.82% stake in Vi, according to a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya Birla Group will invest \u20b94,730 crore (about $500 million) in Vodafone Idea (Vi), reinforcing the debt-laden telecom company\u2019s financial health and its capability to continue challenging bigger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. The Vi board Saturday approved a preferential allotment of convertible warrants to Suryaja Investments, a Singapore-based entity of Aditya Birla Group, marking a fresh capital infusion from the company\u2019s promoters. Upon full conversion, Suryaja Investments will hold up to 3.82% stake in Vi, according to a regulatory filing.<\/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-1008342","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\/1008342","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=1008342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}