July 1st, 2011 9:54 PM 7 COMMENTS

Essar To Sell Its Stake In Vodafone Essar Ltd To Vodafone

Essar Communications Mauritius Limited today announced that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Essar Communications Limited (“ECL”) and Essar Com Limited (“ECom”), have sold the 22% shareholding in Vodafone Essar Limited (“VEL”) to the Vodafone Group. Under the agreements signed in Port Louis, Mauritius, Vodafone has made a net payment of US $3.32 billion, after deduction of withholding tax of US$0.88 billion. While Vodafone and ECML continue to believe that no tax... Read More

April 1st, 2011 11:26 AM 14 COMMENTS

Vodafone Buys Essar’s 33 percent Stake For $5 Billion

Vodafone Essar, country’s second largest mobile service operator in terms of revenue and third largest in terms of subscribers announces that the Essar Group has exercised its underwritten put option over 22% of Vodafone Essar Limited (‘VEL’). Following the exercise by the Essar Group of its put option, Vodafone has exercised its call option over the remaining 11% of VEL owned by the Essar Group resulting in a total cash... Read More

June 16th, 2009 1:20 PM 7 COMMENTS

MTNL MUMBAI WILL SHARE MOBILE TOWER WITH EASSAR

State-run telecom Operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) is planning to enter a Mobile tower-sharing deal with Essar Telecom Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (ETIPL) for its Mumbai circle. The move has come at a time when MTNL is gearing up to launch 3G services in Mumbai on a commercial basis. MTNL has been sharing towers with various other infrastructure companies like Tata-Quippo, Reliance Infratel and GTL, in the Mumbai circle. The... Read More

April 18th, 2009 1:38 PM 1 COMMENTS

THE MOBILE STORE WILL LAUNCHE OWN LABEL MOBILE PHONE

The MobileStore (TMS), telecom retail arm of the Essar Group, is close to launching its own labelled "RAY" mobile phones to garner a share of the handset market, which is clocking double-digit growth despite slowdown. While TMS is a venture of the Ruias, the branding will be independent of the Essar Group. "Before End of this month, we will launch phones with our Own label "RAY Mobile". We hope to... Read More

March 8th, 2009 3:51 AM 3 COMMENTS

MOBILE STORE EYEING INTO MATRIX CELLULAR SERVICES

The Essar group-owned The Mobile Store (TMS), is in talks to buy international calling card company Matrix Cellular Services (MCS), as it looks to spread its wings into a new and fast-growing business area to boost revenues . The acquisition of Matrix,which provides country specific mobile SIM and data cards to international travellers and is a market leader in the calling card space, could enable the Mumbai-based Ruia gruop (Essar)... Read More

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