{"id":909819,"date":"2025-02-27T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909819"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:30:50","slug":"airtel-tata-merger-on-cards-bharti-airtel-in-talks-with-tata-group-to-combine-dth-biz-of-bharti-telemedia-tata-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/airtel-tata-merger-on-cards-bharti-airtel-in-talks-with-tata-group-to-combine-dth-biz-of-bharti-telemedia-tata-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel-Tata merger on cards: Bharti Airtel in talks with Tata Group to combine DTH biz of Bharti Telemedia, Tata Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel-Tata merger: Bharti Airtel confirmed on Wednesday, February 26, that it is currently in discussions with the Tata Group to explore a deal to merge Tata Play&#8217;s direct-to-home (DTH) business with its subsidiary Bharti Telemedia Ltd. Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator announced in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges today after certain reports indicated yesterday that the upcoming DTH deal would likely be through a merger swap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to submit that Bharti Airtel Ltd 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 Ltd, a subsidiary of Airtel, in a structure acceptable to all parties. The above is at a discussion stage only,\u201d said Bharti Airtel in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel-Tata merger: Bharti Airtel confirmed on Wednesday, February 26, that it is currently in discussions with the Tata Group to explore a deal to merge Tata Play&#8217;s direct-to-home (DTH) business with its subsidiary Bharti Telemedia Ltd. Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator announced in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges today after certain reports indicated yesterday that the upcoming DTH deal would likely be through a merger swap. \u201cWe wish to submit that Bharti Airtel Ltd 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909819","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}