{"id":108793,"date":"2017-10-13T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108793"},"modified":"2017-10-13T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:30:29","slug":"airtel-to-take-over-tata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/airtel-to-take-over-tata\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel to take over Tata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\u2019s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd. will take over the struggling mobile services business of salt-to-software Tata Group as low tariffs and rising debt continue to drive consolidation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bharti Airtel will get 4 crore customers and assets of Tata Group\u2019s mobile services business, the companies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108794 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airtel-may-acquire-Tata-Tele-UK-research-firm.jpg\" alt=\"Airtel to take over Tata \" width=\"740\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airtel-may-acquire-Tata-Tele-UK-research-firm.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airtel-may-acquire-Tata-Tele-UK-research-firm-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cdebt-free cash-free\u201d merger will see Sunil Mittal-led company take control of operations and a small portion of Tata Teleservices Ltd.\u2019s unpaid spectrum liabilities. It excludes the Tata Group\u2019s stake in tower firm Viom Networks Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe believe today&#8217;s agreement is the best and most optimal solution for the Tata Group and its stakeholders,\u201d Tata Sons Ltd.\u2019s chairman N Chandrasekaran said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd. will take over the struggling mobile services business of salt-to-software Tata Group as low tariffs and rising debt continue to drive consolidation. Bharti Airtel will get 4 crore customers and assets of Tata Group\u2019s mobile services business, the companies said in a joint statement. The \u201cdebt-free cash-free\u201d merger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55487,617,55482,55481,55486,55484,52609,55485,12780,55483],"class_list":["post-108793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-4-crore-customers","tag-bharti-airtel","tag-bharti-airtel-ltd","tag-indias-largest-telecom-operator","tag-mobile-services-business","tag-n-chandrasekaran","tag-stakeholders","tag-sunil-mittal","tag-tata-group","tag-tata-sons-ltd-s-chairman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/airtel-reu-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}