{"id":1016510,"date":"2026-06-24T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016510"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:26:37","slug":"bharti-airtel-raises-stake-in-airtel-africa-to-79-per-cent-in-transaction-worth-rs-28000-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/bharti-airtel-raises-stake-in-airtel-africa-to-79-per-cent-in-transaction-worth-rs-28000-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel raises stake in Airtel Africa to 79 per cent in transaction worth Rs 28,000 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has raised its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31 per cent to about 79 per cent through a share-swap agreement, which is estimated to be around Rs 28,200 crore, according to a company filing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Before the transaction, Bharti Airtel held 62.73 per cent in Airtel Africa. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company completed the acquisition of 595,204,251 shares (around 16.3 per cent stake) of Airtel Africa, from ICIL on June 22, 2026. Consequently, the company&#8217;s effective stake in Airtel Africa has increased to around 79 per cent,&#8221; Bharti Airtel said in the filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has raised its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31 per cent to about 79 per cent through a share-swap agreement, which is estimated to be around Rs 28,200 crore, according to a company filing on Tuesday. Before the transaction, Bharti Airtel held 62.73 per cent in Airtel Africa. &#8220;The company completed the acquisition of 595,204,251 shares (around 16.3 per cent stake) of Airtel Africa, from ICIL on June 22, 2026. Consequently, the company&#8217;s effective stake in Airtel Africa has increased to around 79 per cent,&#8221; Bharti Airtel said in the filing.<\/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-1016510","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\/1016510","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=1016510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016535,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016510\/revisions\/1016535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}