{"id":931551,"date":"2025-05-17T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931551"},"modified":"2025-05-17T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:45:49","slug":"singtel-sells-1-2-per-cent-stake-in-bharti-airtel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/17\/singtel-sells-1-2-per-cent-stake-in-bharti-airtel\/","title":{"rendered":"Singtel sells 1.2 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singtel on Friday said it has sold about 1.2 per cent of its direct stake in Bharti Airtel for SGD two billion (roughly $1.5 billion) in sync with its active capital management approach to optimise its asset portfolio and drive shareholder returns. Following the sale of 1.2 per cent equity, Singtel will hold a 28.3 per cent stake in India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator Airtel. The transaction was executed on a private placement basis to international and Indian institutional investors, including existing shareholders of Airtel, according to Singtel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singtel on Friday said it has sold about 1.2 per cent of its direct stake in Bharti Airtel for SGD two billion (roughly $1.5 billion) in sync with its active capital management approach to optimise its asset portfolio and drive shareholder returns. Following the sale of 1.2 per cent equity, Singtel will hold a 28.3 per cent stake in India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator Airtel. The transaction was executed on a private placement basis to international and Indian institutional investors, including existing shareholders of Airtel, according to Singtel.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931551","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=931551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}