{"id":924569,"date":"2025-04-23T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=924569"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:34:40","slug":"interview-wont-raise-stake-in-vodafone-idea-telco-must-clear-government-dues-says-jyotiraditya-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/23\/interview-wont-raise-stake-in-vodafone-idea-telco-must-clear-government-dues-says-jyotiraditya-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Won&#8217;t raise stake in Vodafone Idea, telco must clear government dues, says Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has no plan to convert any further statutory dues of Vodafone Idea into equity, as it does not want to turn the private telco into a state-run company, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told ET in an interview. The minister also said Elon Musk-owned Starlink has yet to meet all guidelines for securing a satcom permit. He also said he&#8217;s working to make India Post profitable in the next five to six years. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has no plan to convert any further statutory dues of Vodafone Idea into equity, as it does not want to turn the private telco into a state-run company, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told ET in an interview. The minister also said Elon Musk-owned Starlink has yet to meet all guidelines for securing a satcom permit. He also said he&#8217;s working to make India Post profitable in the next five to six years. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924569","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}