{"id":832535,"date":"2024-07-15T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=832535"},"modified":"2024-07-15T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:58:53","slug":"govt-considers-handing-over-mtnl-operations-to-bsnl-merger-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/15\/govt-considers-handing-over-mtnl-operations-to-bsnl-merger-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt considers handing over MTNL operations to BSNL; merger unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering the option of handing over operations of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to BSNL through an agreement, instead of pursuing a merger route, a source privy to the development said. <\/p>\n<p>A final call on this is likely to be taken in a month&#8217;s time. <\/p>\n<p>The source said the option of handing over debt-laden MTNL&#8217;s operations to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) through an agreement is being looked into. The source said that given MTNL&#8217;s high debt, a merger with BSNL was not a favourable option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering the option of handing over operations of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to BSNL through an agreement, instead of pursuing a merger route, a source privy to the development said. A final call on this is likely to be taken in a month&#8217;s time. The source said the option of handing over debt-laden MTNL&#8217;s operations to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) through an agreement is being looked into. The source said that given MTNL&#8217;s high debt, a merger with BSNL was not a favourable option.<\/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-832535","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\/832535","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=832535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}