{"id":1020134,"date":"2026-07-11T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020134"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:22:36","slug":"french-tycoon-xavier-niel-becomes-vodafones-top-shareholder-in-6-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/french-tycoon-xavier-niel-becomes-vodafones-top-shareholder-in-6-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"French tycoon Xavier Niel becomes Vodafone&#8217;s top shareholder in $6 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French billionaire Xavier Niel is set to become Vodafone Group&#8217;s largest shareholder, after UAE telecoms group e&amp; agreed to sell its entire stake in the British telecoms group for almost $6 billion. The deal gives one of Europe&#8217;s most active telecoms dealmakers, who has long championed consolidation \u200cin the continent&#8217;s fragmented industry, \u2060the \u2060largest stake in Britain&#8217;s biggest mobile operator. <\/p>\n<p>Vega, the acquisition vehicle wholly owned by the Niel family group, said it had struck a binding agreement to buy the roughly 16.2% stake for about \u00a34.4 billion ($5.91 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French billionaire Xavier Niel is set to become Vodafone Group&#8217;s largest shareholder, after UAE telecoms group e&amp; agreed to sell its entire stake in the British telecoms group for almost $6 billion. The deal gives one of Europe&#8217;s most active telecoms dealmakers, who has long championed consolidation \u200cin the continent&#8217;s fragmented industry, \u2060the \u2060largest stake in Britain&#8217;s biggest mobile operator. Vega, the acquisition vehicle wholly owned by the Niel family group, said it had struck a binding agreement to buy the roughly 16.2% stake for about \u00a34.4 billion ($5.91 billion).<\/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-1020134","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\/1020134","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=1020134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020159,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020134\/revisions\/1020159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}