{"id":1010626,"date":"2026-05-29T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010626"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:06:30","slug":"uk-may-block-billionaire-sunil-bharti-mittal-from-raising-stake-in-telecom-giant-bt-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/uk-may-block-billionaire-sunil-bharti-mittal-from-raising-stake-in-telecom-giant-bt-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK may block billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal from raising stake in telecom giant BT: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government would oppose any attempt by Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecoms group BT in order to maintain sovereign control over \u201ccritical national infrastructure\u201d, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. <\/p>\n<p>The stance will limit the billionaire\u2019s influence over BT, whose broadband infrastructure arm Openreach provides fibre broadband to more than 22 million homes in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government would oppose any attempt by Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecoms group BT in order to maintain sovereign control over \u201ccritical national infrastructure\u201d, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. The stance will limit the billionaire\u2019s influence over BT, whose broadband infrastructure arm Openreach provides fibre broadband to more than 22 million homes in Britain.<\/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-1010626","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\/1010626","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=1010626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010654,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010626\/revisions\/1010654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}