{"id":1049263,"date":"2026-11-14T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049263"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T04:07:03","slug":"tatas-values-reliances-speed-mittals-mantra-for-bharti50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/tatas-values-reliances-speed-mittals-mantra-for-bharti50\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata\u2019s values, Reliance\u2019s speed: Mittal\u2019s mantra for Bharti@50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2016 and 2019, Sunil Bharti Mittal did something few founders are ever asked to do\u2013he raised $18 billion in 34 months, simply to keep his company standing. \u201cIt looked as though the company could collapse,\u201d he recalls of the years after Reliance Jio\u2019s entry upended Indian telecom. \u201cDuring those 34 months, I raised $18 billion simply to ensure our survival,\u201d he says in an interview with Financial Express.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel survived. Now, as Bharti turns 50, the group that began as a small bicycle-components unit in Ludhiana in 1976 has its sights on AI data centres, sovereign cloud and compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2016 and 2019, Sunil Bharti Mittal did something few founders are ever asked to do\u2013he raised $18 billion in 34 months, simply to keep his company standing. \u201cIt looked as though the company could collapse,\u201d he recalls of the years after Reliance Jio\u2019s entry upended Indian telecom. \u201cDuring those 34 months, I raised $18 billion simply to ensure our survival,\u201d he says in an interview with Financial Express. Airtel survived. Now, as Bharti turns 50, the group that began as a small bicycle-components unit in Ludhiana in 1976 has its sights on AI data centres, sovereign cloud and compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049263","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049273,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049263\/revisions\/1049273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}