{"id":889493,"date":"2024-12-20T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=889493"},"modified":"2024-12-20T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:50:57","slug":"bharti-airtel-clears-2016-spectrum-liabilities-by-paying-rs-3626-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/20\/bharti-airtel-clears-2016-spectrum-liabilities-by-paying-rs-3626-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel clears 2016 spectrum liabilities by paying Rs 3,626 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian telecom carrier Bharti Airtel has made an early payment of Rs 3,626 crore ($426.4 million) to the Indian government, the company said on Thursday, settling all its liabilities for the spectrum acquired in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s No. 2 wireless carrier had paid Rs 8,465 crore towards the liabilities in September.<\/p>\n<p>Indian telecom operators owe the government significant spectrum fees, following years of high-stakes auctions and competitive bidding for airwave rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian telecom carrier Bharti Airtel has made an early payment of Rs 3,626 crore ($426.4 million) to the Indian government, the company said on Thursday, settling all its liabilities for the spectrum acquired in 2016. India&#8217;s No. 2 wireless carrier had paid Rs 8,465 crore towards the liabilities in September. Indian telecom operators owe the government significant spectrum fees, following years of high-stakes auctions and competitive bidding for airwave rights.<\/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-889493","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\/889493","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=889493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}