{"id":864411,"date":"2024-10-09T08:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=864411"},"modified":"2024-10-09T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:52:42","slug":"airtel-in-talks-to-buy-tata-play-as-digital-tv-industry-sees-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/09\/airtel-in-talks-to-buy-tata-play-as-digital-tv-industry-sees-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel in talks to buy Tata Play as digital TV industry sees shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel is in advanced negotiations to acquire Tata Group\u2019s loss-making Tata Play, the country\u2019s largest direct-to-home (DTH) service provider, reported The Economic Times citing sources familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The move is seen as a strategic effort by Airtel to bolster its presence in the digital TV space, which faces slow growth, while strengthening its bundled services to increase non-mobile revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel is in advanced negotiations to acquire Tata Group\u2019s loss-making Tata Play, the country\u2019s largest direct-to-home (DTH) service provider, reported The Economic Times citing sources familiar with the matter. The move is seen as a strategic effort by Airtel to bolster its presence in the digital TV space, which faces slow growth, while strengthening its bundled services to increase non-mobile revenues.<\/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":[36,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864411","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=864411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}