{"id":909320,"date":"2025-02-27T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909320"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:02:35","slug":"airtel-confirms-bilateral-discussions-with-tata-group-for-dth-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/airtel-confirms-bilateral-discussions-with-tata-group-for-dth-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel confirms &#8216;bilateral discussions&#8217; with Tata Group for DTH merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Wednesday confirmed ongoing discussions with the Tata Group regarding a potential merger of their direct-to-home (DTH) businesses, following media reports speculating on the deal. <\/p>\n<p>In an exchange filing, Airtel stated, &#8220;We wish to submit that Bharti Airtel Limited (\u2018Airtel\u2019) and TATA Group are in bilateral discussions to explore a potential transaction to achieve a combination of TATA Group\u2019s Direct To Home (\u2018DTH\u2019) business housed under Tata Play Limited, with Bharti Telemedia Limited, a subsidiary of Airtel, in a structure acceptable to all parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Wednesday confirmed ongoing discussions with the Tata Group regarding a potential merger of their direct-to-home (DTH) businesses, following media reports speculating on the deal. In an exchange filing, Airtel stated, &#8220;We wish to submit that Bharti Airtel Limited (\u2018Airtel\u2019) and TATA Group are in bilateral discussions to explore a potential transaction to achieve a combination of TATA Group\u2019s Direct To Home (\u2018DTH\u2019) business housed under Tata Play Limited, with Bharti Telemedia Limited, a subsidiary of Airtel, in a structure acceptable to all parties.&#8221;<\/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-909320","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\/909320","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=909320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}