{"id":1010782,"date":"2026-05-29T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010782"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:53:44","slug":"uk-may-stop-billionaire-sunil-bharti-mittal-to-increase-his-ownership-stake-in-telecom-major-bt-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/uk-may-stop-billionaire-sunil-bharti-mittal-to-increase-his-ownership-stake-in-telecom-major-bt-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK may stop billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his ownership stake in telecom major BT: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government would thwart any attempt by Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal to raise his stake in telecom company BT, citing the need to uphold sovereign control over &#8220;critical national infrastructure\u201d, according to media reports. <\/p>\n<p>This will reduce the billionaire&#8217;s power over BT, whose Openreach broadband infrastructure division serves over 22 million British homes with fiber broadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government would thwart any attempt by Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal to raise his stake in telecom company BT, citing the need to uphold sovereign control over &#8220;critical national infrastructure\u201d, according to media reports. This will reduce the billionaire&#8217;s power over BT, whose Openreach broadband infrastructure division serves over 22 million British homes with fiber broadband.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010782","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=1010782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010797,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010782\/revisions\/1010797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}