{"id":942816,"date":"2025-07-02T06:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942816"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:54:53","slug":"airtels-request-to-convert-dues-into-equity-may-not-get-government-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/02\/airtels-request-to-convert-dues-into-equity-may-not-get-government-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel&#8217;s request to convert dues into equity may not get government nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Airtel&#8217;s request for conversion of its statutory dues into equity &#8211; on the lines of a bailout given to Vodafone Idea &#8211; may not be approved by the Department of Telecom (DoT) in view of healthy financial state of the company, government sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel surprised many when in April it approached DoT for conversion of its payments towards spectrum and AGR into an equity swap. This would have seen the government receive a slice of the company&#8217;s shareholding in lieu of outstanding payments, similar to what was done by the beleaguered Vodafone Idea, in which the government now has a 49% stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Airtel&#8217;s request for conversion of its statutory dues into equity &#8211; on the lines of a bailout given to Vodafone Idea &#8211; may not be approved by the Department of Telecom (DoT) in view of healthy financial state of the company, government sources said. Airtel surprised many when in April it approached DoT for conversion of its payments towards spectrum and AGR into an equity swap. This would have seen the government receive a slice of the company&#8217;s shareholding in lieu of outstanding payments, similar to what was done by the beleaguered Vodafone Idea, in which the government [&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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942816","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\/942816","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=942816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}