{"id":971752,"date":"2025-11-05T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971752"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:13:59","slug":"indus-towers-an-undervalued-asset-says-bharti-airtels-gopal-vittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/indus-towers-an-undervalued-asset-says-bharti-airtels-gopal-vittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indus Towers an \u2018undervalued asset\u2019, says Bharti Airtel\u2019s Gopal Vittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Vice Chairman and Managing Director Gopal Vittal said on Tuesday that the company sees Indus Towers as an \u201cundervalued asset\u201d, and has a strong dividend-paying potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see Indus (Towers) as a very clearly undervalued asset. It&#8217;s a strong dividend-paying company. It&#8217;s a vital infrastructure for us. Given all of these reasons, we have taken an enabling provision to take up the stake there,\u201d Vittal told analysts at Airtel\u2019s fiscal second quarter (Q2FY26) post-earnings conference call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, based on how things play out, we will look to activate that provision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Vice Chairman and Managing Director Gopal Vittal said on Tuesday that the company sees Indus Towers as an \u201cundervalued asset\u201d, and has a strong dividend-paying potential. \u201cWe see Indus (Towers) as a very clearly undervalued asset. It&#8217;s a strong dividend-paying company. It&#8217;s a vital infrastructure for us. Given all of these reasons, we have taken an enabling provision to take up the stake there,\u201d Vittal told analysts at Airtel\u2019s fiscal second quarter (Q2FY26) post-earnings conference call. \u201cAt some point, based on how things play out, we will look to activate that provision.\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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971752","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\/971752","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=971752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}