{"id":19313,"date":"2020-09-03T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19313"},"modified":"2020-09-03T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:01:07","slug":"vodafone-idea-latest-news-amazon-verizon-may-invest-over-4-billion-in-vodafone-idea-report-india-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19313","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea latest news: Amazon, Verizon may invest over $4 billion in Vodafone Idea: Report | India Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>BENGALURU: US wireless carrier <!-- -->Verizon<!-- --> Communications Inc and <!-- -->Amazon.com<!-- --> Inc may invest more than $4 billion for a stake in India&#8217;s <!-- -->Vodafone Idea<!-- --> Ltd, a business daily reported on Thursday, sending shares in the struggling Indian telecom firm up 10%. <br \/>Vodafone Idea&#8217;s stake-sale talks had been paused pending the outcome of a court hearing in India, which created uncertainty and could have threatened Vodafone Idea&#8217;s survival, the newspaper reported, citing two unnamed people aware of the negotiations. <\/p>\n<p>But Amazon and Verizon are set to resume discussions following a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday which gave mobile carriers 10 years to settle government dues. <br \/>Vodafone Idea did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. Amazon and Verizon did not return emails seeking comment outside regular US business hours. <br \/>Heavily indebted Vodafone Idea &#8211; a joint venture between Britain&#8217;s Vodafone Group Plc and India&#8217;s Idea Cellular &#8211; had previously said its ability to continue as a going concern rested on a positive outcome of the hearing. <br \/>It has paid the Indian government Rs 7,850 crore ($1.1 billion) in telecoms dues, according to regulatory filings, but still owes roughly Rs 50,000 crore ($6.8 billion) more. <br \/>Shares in Vodafone Idea, which ended 13% lower after Tuesday&#8217;s court ruling, were up 8% at Rs 10.70 on the NSE index in early trading hours. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/amazon-verizon-may-invest-over-4-billion-in-vodafone-idea-report\/articleshow\/77903855.cms\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: US wireless carrier Verizon Communications Inc and Amazon.com Inc may invest more than $4 billion for a stake in India&#8217;s Vodafone Idea Ltd, a business daily reported on Thursday, sending shares in the struggling Indian telecom firm up 10%. Vodafone Idea&#8217;s stake-sale talks had been paused pending the outcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1599112870_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}