{"id":1009517,"date":"2026-05-23T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009517"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:41:48","slug":"bharti-group-seeks-uk-support-to-raise-bt-stake-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/bharti-group-seeks-uk-support-to-raise-bt-stake-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti group seeks UK support to raise BT stake, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian conglomerate Bharti Enterprises is seeking to potentially increase its stake in BT to just under the threshold that would require it to make a full takeover offer for the British telecoms group, \u200cthree people familiar with \u2060the matter \u2060said. <\/p>\n<p>Led by billionaire founder, Sunil Bharti Mittal, the group is looking to secure UK government approval required for it to be able to increase its stake in the London-listed company, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the matter is private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian conglomerate Bharti Enterprises is seeking to potentially increase its stake in BT to just under the threshold that would require it to make a full takeover offer for the British telecoms group, \u200cthree people familiar with \u2060the matter \u2060said. Led by billionaire founder, Sunil Bharti Mittal, the group is looking to secure UK government approval required for it to be able to increase its stake in the London-listed company, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the matter is private.<\/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-1009517","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\/1009517","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=1009517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009536,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009517\/revisions\/1009536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}