{"id":844284,"date":"2024-08-14T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844284"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:56:29","slug":"bharti-rules-bt-waves-why-sunil-mittal-was-on-patrick-drahis-speed-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/14\/bharti-rules-bt-waves-why-sunil-mittal-was-on-patrick-drahis-speed-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti rules BT waves: Why Sunil Mittal was on Patrick Drahi&#8217;s speed dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One billionaire\u2019s $60 billion debt woes opened a window of opportunity for another to dial in.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom&#8217;s JLR moment stunned the corporate fraternity in India and Britain this week. In a turnaround of history, Sunil Mittal on Monday swooped in to buy a quarter of BT (formerly British Telecom) and become its single-largest shareholder. In the process, he reconnected with the telecom giant \u2014 a former monopoly player in Britain \u2014 close to three decades since it held a 21% stake in his Indian telecom operations, now the $100 bn colossus called Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One billionaire\u2019s $60 billion debt woes opened a window of opportunity for another to dial in. Telecom&#8217;s JLR moment stunned the corporate fraternity in India and Britain this week. In a turnaround of history, Sunil Mittal on Monday swooped in to buy a quarter of BT (formerly British Telecom) and become its single-largest shareholder. In the process, he reconnected with the telecom giant \u2014 a former monopoly player in Britain \u2014 close to three decades since it held a 21% stake in his Indian telecom operations, now the $100 bn colossus called Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-844284","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\/844284","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}