{"id":1014652,"date":"2026-06-16T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014652"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:08:53","slug":"bharti-airtel-shareholders-approve-share-swap-deal-with-icil-to-boost-airtel-africa-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/bharti-airtel-shareholders-approve-share-swap-deal-with-icil-to-boost-airtel-africa-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel shareholders approve share swap deal with ICIL to boost Airtel Africa stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel shareholders have approved the telecom operator raising its stake to nearly 79% in subsidiary, Airtel Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The transaction will involve Airtel issuing equity shares to Indian Continent Investment Limited (ICIL), a promoter group entity, on a preferential basis, in exchange for its 16.31% stake in Airtel Africa, the Gurugram-headquartered telco said in a regulatory filing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal received resounding support from shareholders, including public and institutional investors, reflecting confidence in its strategic rationale and long-term value creation potential,\u201d Airtel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel shareholders have approved the telecom operator raising its stake to nearly 79% in subsidiary, Airtel Africa. The transaction will involve Airtel issuing equity shares to Indian Continent Investment Limited (ICIL), a promoter group entity, on a preferential basis, in exchange for its 16.31% stake in Airtel Africa, the Gurugram-headquartered telco said in a regulatory filing. \u201cThe proposal received resounding support from shareholders, including public and institutional investors, reflecting confidence in its strategic rationale and long-term value creation potential,\u201d Airtel said.<\/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-1014652","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\/1014652","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=1014652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014653,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014652\/revisions\/1014653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}