{"id":1010752,"date":"2026-05-29T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010752"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:30:44","slug":"uk-to-block-sunil-bharti-mittals-bt-stake-push-over-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/uk-to-block-sunil-bharti-mittals-bt-stake-push-over-national-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to block Sunil Bharti Mittal\u2019s BT stake push over national security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta: The UK government would oppose any attempt from Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecom group British Telecom (BT), people familiar with the matter have said, citing the need to maintain sovereign control over \u201ccritical national infrastructure\u201d, according to a Financial Times report. <\/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>Calcutta: The UK government would oppose any attempt from Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecom group British Telecom (BT), people familiar with the matter have said, citing the need to maintain sovereign control over \u201ccritical national infrastructure\u201d, according to a Financial Times report. 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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010752","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=1010752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010767,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010752\/revisions\/1010767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}