{"id":388,"date":"2006-08-08T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/08\/vodafone-may-up-airtel-stake-to-20-per-cent\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T05:41:06","slug":"vodafone-may-up-airtel-stake-to-20-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/08\/vodafone-may-up-airtel-stake-to-20-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone may up Airtel stake to 20 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based <strong>Vodafone Group<\/strong> plc, the <strong>largest mobile services provider <\/strong>in the world, is considering increasing its <strong>equity stake in Bharti Airtel to 20%<\/strong> as part of its plans to double revenues from emerging markets over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the hike could be  sewn up <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153in 2-3 months<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac?.<\/p>\n<p>In an email statement from the UK, a Vodafone spokesman confirmed the intent: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>We are interested in increasing our stake in Bharti Airtel.<\/strong> However, any increase is dependent on other shareholdings being available for <strong>purchase<\/strong>. Such shareholdings are<strong> not <\/strong>currently available.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partly because Bharti Airtel has <strong>already hit the 74% ceiling <\/strong>for foreign investment as a result of a change in the way such shareholding is accounted for. <\/p>\n<p>Read More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1046000\">DNA India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Vodafone Group plc, the largest mobile services provider in the world, is considering increasing its equity stake in Bharti Airtel to 20% as part of its plans to double revenues from emerging markets over the next three years. Sources said the hike could be sewn up \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in 2-3 months\u00e2\u20ac?. In an email statement from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-others","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}