{"id":917144,"date":"2025-03-27T06:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=917144"},"modified":"2025-03-27T06:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:10:58","slug":"bharti-airtel-prepays-additional-rs-5985-crore-of-high-cost-spectrum-dues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/27\/bharti-airtel-prepays-additional-rs-5985-crore-of-high-cost-spectrum-dues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel prepays additional Rs 5,985 crore of high-cost spectrum dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel and subsidiary Bharti Hexacom have prepaid an additional Rs 5,985 crore of high-cost spectrum liabilities to the government, the telco said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel&#8217;s subsidiary Network i2i has also voluntarily called and redeemed $1 billion in &#8216;perpetual debt securities&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bharti Airtel and its subsidiary Bharti Hexacom have prepaid additional Rs 5,985 crore to the Department of Telecom thereby fully prepaying the high-cost interest liabilities of 8.65 per cent pertaining to the 2024 auctions,&#8221; the Sunil Mittal-led company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel and subsidiary Bharti Hexacom have prepaid an additional Rs 5,985 crore of high-cost spectrum liabilities to the government, the telco said on Wednesday. Airtel&#8217;s subsidiary Network i2i has also voluntarily called and redeemed $1 billion in &#8216;perpetual debt securities&#8217;. &#8220;Bharti Airtel and its subsidiary Bharti Hexacom have prepaid additional Rs 5,985 crore to the Department of Telecom thereby fully prepaying the high-cost interest liabilities of 8.65 per cent pertaining to the 2024 auctions,&#8221; the Sunil Mittal-led company said.<\/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-917144","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\/917144","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=917144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}