{"id":1046026,"date":"2026-10-31T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046026"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:21:09","slug":"cci-clears-xavier-niels-16-2-stake-acquisition-in-vodafone-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/cci-clears-xavier-niels-16-2-stake-acquisition-in-vodafone-group\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI clears Xavier Niel&#8217;s 16.2% stake acquisition in Vodafone Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared French billionaire Xavier Niel&#8217;s proposal to acquire a 16.2% stake in Vodafone Group Plc. Niel is acquiring the stake through his family investment vehicle, Vega SAS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maya SAS. <\/p>\n<p>Vega SAS, which has no business presence in India, will become Vodafone&#8217;s largest shareholder after the transaction closes. Vodafone Group, a European and African telecommunications company, provides fixed and mobile services in India through Vodafone Idea Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared French billionaire Xavier Niel&#8217;s proposal to acquire a 16.2% stake in Vodafone Group Plc. Niel is acquiring the stake through his family investment vehicle, Vega SAS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maya SAS. Vega SAS, which has no business presence in India, will become Vodafone&#8217;s largest shareholder after the transaction closes. Vodafone Group, a European and African telecommunications company, provides fixed and mobile services in India through Vodafone Idea Ltd.<\/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-1046026","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\/1046026","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=1046026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046047,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046026\/revisions\/1046047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}