{"id":1016769,"date":"2026-06-25T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016769"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:24:10","slug":"sp-upgrades-bharti-airtels-rating-to-bbb-on-strong-india-africa-growth-improving-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/25\/sp-upgrades-bharti-airtels-rating-to-bbb-on-strong-india-africa-growth-improving-business\/","title":{"rendered":"S&P upgrades Bharti Airtel’s rating to ‘BBB+’ on strong India, Africa growth, improving business"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday upgraded its long-term issuer credit rating on Bharti Airtel to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’, citing strong earnings growth prospects in India and Africa, as well as the Sunil Mittal-driven telco’s improving balance sheet. <\/p>\n

“Growing data consumption and a fundamental improvement in Indian and African telco markets will help expand Bharti Airtel’s earnings” and support further deleveraging, the credit rating agency said in a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday upgraded its long-term issuer credit rating on Bharti Airtel to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’, citing strong earnings growth prospects in India and Africa, as well as the Sunil Mittal-driven telco’s improving balance sheet. “Growing data consumption and a fundamental improvement in Indian and African telco markets will help expand Bharti Airtel’s earnings” and support further deleveraging, the credit rating agency said in a report.<\/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-1016769","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\/1016769","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=1016769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016791,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016769\/revisions\/1016791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}