{"id":930916,"date":"2025-05-15T08:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=930916"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:28:58","slug":"airtels-equity-conversion-proposal-to-assess-option-not-a-decision-vittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/15\/airtels-equity-conversion-proposal-to-assess-option-not-a-decision-vittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel\u2019s equity conversion proposal to assess option, not a decision: Vittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel Ltd\u2019s proposal to the government on converting its revenue-linked dues into equity was only intended to explore if such an option was available, vice chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said on Wednesday, adding that a decision will be taken by the company&#8217;s board after getting clarification from the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just wanted a non-discriminatory level-playing field in terms of an option to convert,\u201d Vittal said. \u201cWhether we will convert or not is a decision for the board to take\u2026 We wanted a clarification from the government whether we had the option or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel Ltd\u2019s proposal to the government on converting its revenue-linked dues into equity was only intended to explore if such an option was available, vice chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said on Wednesday, adding that a decision will be taken by the company&#8217;s board after getting clarification from the government. \u201cWe just wanted a non-discriminatory level-playing field in terms of an option to convert,\u201d Vittal said. \u201cWhether we will convert or not is a decision for the board to take\u2026 We wanted a clarification from the government whether we had the option or not.\u201d<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930916","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=930916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}