{"id":917260,"date":"2025-03-27T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=917260"},"modified":"2025-03-27T07:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:18:40","slug":"bharti-airtel-prepays-rs-5985-crore-of-high-cost-spectrum-liabilities-and-voluntarily-redeems-usd-1-billion-in-perpetual-debt-securities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/27\/bharti-airtel-prepays-rs-5985-crore-of-high-cost-spectrum-liabilities-and-voluntarily-redeems-usd-1-billion-in-perpetual-debt-securities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel prepays Rs 5,985 crore of high-cost spectrum liabilities and voluntarily redeems USD 1 billion in perpetual debt securities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): Telecom company Bharti Airtel Ltd and its subsidiary Bharti Hexacom Ltd 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, the company said in a release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel&#8217;s subsidiary Network i2i Ltd. has also voluntarily called and redeemed USD 1 billion in Perpetual Notes, the company. said.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel continues to prepay its high-cost spectrum liabilities, lowering its debt and cost of debt, underscoring its commitment to financial prudence, operational efficiency, and its strong capital position, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): Telecom company Bharti Airtel Ltd and its subsidiary Bharti Hexacom Ltd 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, the company said in a release on Wednesday. Airtel&#8217;s subsidiary Network i2i Ltd. has also voluntarily called and redeemed USD 1 billion in Perpetual Notes, the company. said. Airtel continues to prepay its high-cost spectrum liabilities, lowering its debt and cost of debt, underscoring its commitment to financial prudence, operational efficiency, and its strong capital position, [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917260","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=917260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}