{"id":823606,"date":"2024-06-19T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=823606"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:38:48","slug":"vodafone-idea-seeks-rs-23000-crore-term-loan-to-boost-4g-and-5g-rollouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/19\/vodafone-idea-seeks-rs-23000-crore-term-loan-to-boost-4g-and-5g-rollouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea seeks Rs 23,000 crore term loan to boost 4G and 5G rollouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s third-largest telecom operator, Vodafone Idea (Vi) has proposed to borrow Rs 23,000 crore in term loans and sought an additional Rs 10,000 crore in bank guarantees, according to a report by The Economic Times. This funding is part of Vi\u2019s strategy to compete with larger telecom rivals Reliance Jio and Airtel in a market by enhancing its 4G coverage and 5G rollout. <\/p>\n<p>Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have already deployed pan-India 5G networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s third-largest telecom operator, Vodafone Idea (Vi) has proposed to borrow Rs 23,000 crore in term loans and sought an additional Rs 10,000 crore in bank guarantees, according to a report by The Economic Times. This funding is part of Vi\u2019s strategy to compete with larger telecom rivals Reliance Jio and Airtel in a market by enhancing its 4G coverage and 5G rollout. Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have already deployed pan-India 5G networks.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823606","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=823606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}