Vodafone-Idea Merger Will Certainly Enhance Mobile Experience to Users: Himanshu Kapania

With two of the biggest telecom giants closing in on a merger deal, the vendors and subscribers, both have started receiving similar emails which inform them about how the merger will be a beneficial deal for all. According to the current scenario, the current deal should go through by next month, after which Idea Cellular and Vodafone will fuse to make the biggest telecom company in India. The first batch of emails was sent out to Vodafone subscribers and vendors by the Managing Director of the company Sunil Sood, whereas for Idea the MD Himanshu Kapania sent out similar mails on behalf of Idea Cellular. ??Kapania’s mail said, “The merger process is on track and expected to be completed in the first half of the calendar year 2018.” He also added that the merged entity “will certainly enhance your mobile experience by providing greater broadband speeds, better voice quality and indoor coverage.”? Economic Times reported this news first.

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Kapania also did not forget to add up some numbers which would represent the newly merged entity after Vodafone and Idea Cellular come together. He said that together they would have 270,000 GSM sites along with a mobile broadband network of over 300,000 sites which would include both 3G and 4G sites, catering to 700 million subscribers, compared with their total user base of over 433 million at the end of March. To give you a scale of how massive this merger is going to be it should be taken into consideration that India has over one billion mobile phone subscribers.

The highest body of telecom authority and decisions, DoT is about to pass a final approval on the merger of both the companies. Except for the DoT, the merger has already been approved by capital markets regulator, National Company Law Tribunal and Competition Commission of India.