{"id":1026501,"date":"2026-08-06T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026501"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:58:59","slug":"vodafone-idea-continues-discussions-with-lenders-enters-fy27-with-financial-clarity-km-birla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/vodafone-idea-continues-discussions-with-lenders-enters-fy27-with-financial-clarity-km-birla-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea continues discussions with lenders, enters FY27 with financial clarity: KM Birla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea (Vi) has ongoing discussions with lenders to secure long-term funding for the planned capital investment programme of \u20b945,000 crore over FY27 and FY29, and the telecom operator has entered the new fiscal year with greater financial clarity and a renewed capacity to invest, its Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscussions continue with lenders to secure long-term funding for the planned capital investment programme of \u20b945,000 crore over FY27 to FY29, supporting the expansion of a fully competitive network,\u201d Birla said in the telco\u2019s annual report for FY26 released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea (Vi) has ongoing discussions with lenders to secure long-term funding for the planned capital investment programme of \u20b945,000 crore over FY27 and FY29, and the telecom operator has entered the new fiscal year with greater financial clarity and a renewed capacity to invest, its Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said. \u201cDiscussions continue with lenders to secure long-term funding for the planned capital investment programme of \u20b945,000 crore over FY27 to FY29, supporting the expansion of a fully competitive network,\u201d Birla said in the telco\u2019s annual report for FY26 released on Wednesday.<\/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-1026501","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\/1026501","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=1026501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026518,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026501\/revisions\/1026518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}