{"id":909133,"date":"2025-02-26T08:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909133"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:57:48","slug":"airtel-tata-play-plan-merger-amid-dth-struggles-expand-service-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/26\/airtel-tata-play-plan-merger-amid-dth-struggles-expand-service-bundles\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel, Tata Play plan merger amid DTH struggles, expand service bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel is set to merge its DTH business, Airtel Digital TV, with Tata Play in a share swap deal, according to a report by The Economic Times. Airtel will hold a majority stake of 52-55 per cent, while Tata Play\u2019s shareholders, including Tata Sons and Walt Disney, will keep 45-48 per cent. The deal is expected to help Airtel grow its broadband and entertainment business by bundling telecom, broadband, and DTH services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel is set to merge its DTH business, Airtel Digital TV, with Tata Play in a share swap deal, according to a report by The Economic Times. Airtel will hold a majority stake of 52-55 per cent, while Tata Play\u2019s shareholders, including Tata Sons and Walt Disney, will keep 45-48 per cent. The deal is expected to help Airtel grow its broadband and entertainment business by bundling telecom, broadband, and DTH services.<\/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-909133","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\/909133","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=909133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}