{"id":961853,"date":"2025-09-16T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961853"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:00:44","slug":"sunil-mittal-gopal-vittal-join-bt-group-board-as-non-independent-non-executive-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/sunil-mittal-gopal-vittal-join-bt-group-board-as-non-independent-non-executive-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Mittal, Gopal Vittal join BT Group board as non-independent, non-executive directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BT Group on Monday said Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel, will join its board as non-independent non-executive directors with immediate effect. <\/p>\n<p>The move assumes significance in the light of 2024 announcement of telecom czar Mittal&#8217;s conglomerate acquiring 24.5 per cent stake in BT Group for about $4 billion to become the single-largest shareholder in Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT Group on Monday said Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel, will join its board as non-independent non-executive directors with immediate effect. The move assumes significance in the light of 2024 announcement of telecom czar Mittal&#8217;s conglomerate acquiring 24.5 per cent stake in BT Group for about $4 billion to become the single-largest shareholder in Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company.<\/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-961853","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\/961853","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=961853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}