{"id":843820,"date":"2024-08-13T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T03:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=843820"},"modified":"2024-08-13T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T03:18:30","slug":"bharti-dials-up-uk-telecom-play-with-4-billion-stake-in-bt-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/13\/bharti-dials-up-uk-telecom-play-with-4-billion-stake-in-bt-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti dials up UK telecom play with $4 billion stake in BT Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Global, the international investment arm of Bharti Enterprises, has decided to buy 24.5 per cent equity in BT Group \u2014 a move that will make the Indian conglomerate the biggest shareholder in the UK\u2019s second-largest telecom company both in terms of market value and subscriber count. The shares are being purchased from billionaire Patrick Drahi\u2019s Altice UK through a combination of cash and debt .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Global, the international investment arm of Bharti Enterprises, has decided to buy 24.5 per cent equity in BT Group \u2014 a move that will make the Indian conglomerate the biggest shareholder in the UK\u2019s second-largest telecom company both in terms of market value and subscriber count. The shares are being purchased from billionaire Patrick Drahi\u2019s Altice UK through a combination of cash and debt .<\/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-843820","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\/843820","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=843820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}