{"id":861940,"date":"2024-10-01T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=861940"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:48:09","slug":"airtel-prepays-spectrum-dues-worth-%e2%82%b98465-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/01\/airtel-prepays-spectrum-dues-worth-%e2%82%b98465-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel prepays spectrum dues worth \u20b98,465 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has prepaid another \u20b98,465 crore to the DoT against 173.8 MHz of spectrum acquired in 2016, in a bid to lower interest costs and free up cash as it deepens its 4G network and expands 5G services. The company had total dues of \u20b914,244 crore, which was deferred as part of the telecom relief package doled out by the government in 2021, India&#8217;s second-largest telecom operator said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;These liabilities carried an interest rate of 9.3%,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has prepaid another \u20b98,465 crore to the DoT against 173.8 MHz of spectrum acquired in 2016, in a bid to lower interest costs and free up cash as it deepens its 4G network and expands 5G services. The company had total dues of \u20b914,244 crore, which was deferred as part of the telecom relief package doled out by the government in 2021, India&#8217;s second-largest telecom operator said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;These liabilities carried an interest rate of 9.3%,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-861940","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\/861940","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}