{"id":1008584,"date":"2026-05-19T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008584"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:41:48","slug":"worst-behind-us-vodafone-idea-starting-fy27-with-a-clear-plan-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/worst-behind-us-vodafone-idea-starting-fy27-with-a-clear-plan-says-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Worst behind us, Vodafone Idea starting FY27 with a clear plan&#8217;, says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Vodafone Idea (Vi) said it is on track to accelerate capital expenditure sharply from the ongoing first quarter of FY27 and remains committed to its \u20b945,000-crore network expansion plan over the next three years, as the telecom operator remains confident about closing its long-pending bank debt funding. <\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Abhijit Kishore said Vi remains &#8220;very confident&#8221; of securing \u20b925,000 crore in funded debt and \u20b910,000 crore in non-funded facilities from a consortium of domestic and foreign lenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Vodafone Idea (Vi) said it is on track to accelerate capital expenditure sharply from the ongoing first quarter of FY27 and remains committed to its \u20b945,000-crore network expansion plan over the next three years, as the telecom operator remains confident about closing its long-pending bank debt funding. Chief executive Abhijit Kishore said Vi remains &#8220;very confident&#8221; of securing \u20b925,000 crore in funded debt and \u20b910,000 crore in non-funded facilities from a consortium of domestic and foreign lenders.<\/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-1008584","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\/1008584","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=1008584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}