{"id":941360,"date":"2025-06-26T06:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941360"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:49:45","slug":"vodafone-idea-aims-for-2-9-billion-in-loans-to-bolster-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/26\/vodafone-idea-aims-for-2-9-billion-in-loans-to-bolster-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea aims for $2.9 billion in loans to bolster network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea Ltd. is talking to lenders to borrow about 250 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) in loans to bolster its network and compete better with large rivals, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The State Bank of India will likely lead a consortium of lenders, said the people who did not want to be named as the matter is private, adding the debt is expected to be a mix of domestic and foreign loans with a tenor of about 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea Ltd. is talking to lenders to borrow about 250 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) in loans to bolster its network and compete better with large rivals, according to people familiar with the matter. The State Bank of India will likely lead a consortium of lenders, said the people who did not want to be named as the matter is private, adding the debt is expected to be a mix of domestic and foreign loans with a tenor of about 10 years.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941360","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\/941360","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=941360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}