{"id":1010594,"date":"2026-05-29T08:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010594"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:54:53","slug":"uk-will-block-indian-billionaire-mittal-raising-bt-stake-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/uk-will-block-indian-billionaire-mittal-raising-bt-stake-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK will block Indian billionaire Mittal raising BT stake: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government will oppose any attempt from Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecoms group BT, \u200cciting the \u2060need to \u2060maintain sovereign control over &#8220;critical national infrastructure&#8221;, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report. <\/p>\n<p>BT, the UK government, and Bharti did \u2060not immediately \u200crespond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government will oppose any attempt from Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecoms group BT, \u200cciting the \u2060need to \u2060maintain sovereign control over &#8220;critical national infrastructure&#8221;, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. BT, the UK government, and Bharti did \u2060not immediately \u200crespond to requests for comment.<\/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-1010594","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\/1010594","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=1010594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010612,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010594\/revisions\/1010612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}