{"id":844932,"date":"2024-08-16T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844932"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:36:22","slug":"bhartis-bt-group-deal-could-open-doors-for-the-real-east-india-company-to-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/16\/bhartis-bt-group-deal-could-open-doors-for-the-real-east-india-company-to-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti&#8217;s BT Group deal could open doors for the &#8216;real East India Company&#8217; to flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel and BT have had a synergistic relationship for over two decades. The latter owned 21% stake along with two board seats in Bharti Airtel from 1997 to 2001. During the last two decades, the Sunil Mittal-led Indian telecom giant has surged ahead, reaching a market capitalisation of Rs8.26 lakh cr.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Enterprises acquiring 24.51% stake in BT this week for $4 bn now makes it one the biggest outbound deals by an Indian company. BT is Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company with a market cap of \u00a313.8 bn (about Rs1.48 lakh cr).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel and BT have had a synergistic relationship for over two decades. The latter owned 21% stake along with two board seats in Bharti Airtel from 1997 to 2001. During the last two decades, the Sunil Mittal-led Indian telecom giant has surged ahead, reaching a market capitalisation of Rs8.26 lakh cr. Bharti Enterprises acquiring 24.51% stake in BT this week for $4 bn now makes it one the biggest outbound deals by an Indian company. BT is Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company with a market cap of \u00a313.8 bn (about Rs1.48 lakh cr).<\/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-844932","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\/844932","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=844932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}