The Asia-Pacific Mobile Alliance plans to promote voice, video and data via members' GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA networks.
British telecom giant Vodafone on Friday said it is considering acquiring a controlling stake in India's fourth-largest mobile player Hutchison Essar.
Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom Limited is expected to submit details of loans to two Indian minority shareholders this week to the finance ministry, which is looking into alleged breach of foreign direct investment norms in Hutch-Essar.
The race for acquiring India's third largest mobile services provider Hutch, has hotted up with Reliance Communications backed by an US equity funder
According to reports, the deal, if successful, could fetch Hutchison as much as $14 billion and would be Asia's largest private equity deal.
Hutchison Telecom International Ltd will convene an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders on March 9 to vote on sale of its controlling stake in Indian mobile operator Hutch-Essar to UK mobile phone giant Vodafone.
Arun Sarin is the chief executive officer of Vodafone Group Plc, the United Kingdom-based global mobile operator.
Financing would not be an issue for the group that had business interests in global finance, telecommunications, film, oil and the automotive sector.
Telecom Watchdog, a Delhi-based NGO, has alleged that IDFC misused funds from the India Development Fund to fund transactions in Hutch Essar Ltd.
A report in The Observer on Sunday said the bidding war for telecom firm Hutchison Essar will erupt again, with Britain's Vodafone preparing to table a fresh offer that would value the target at up to 19 billion dollars.
Hinduja group company Hinduja TMT Ltd said on Thursday it has completed the sale of its entire stake in Hutchison-Essar Ltd for over Rs 2,089 crore (Rs 20.89 billion).
The Essar group-owned BPL Mobile is believed to be seeking an extension to use the 'BPL' brand name that is owned by Bangalore-based industrialist TPG Nambiar
The country's largest lender SBI on Thursday reported a 4.20 per cent decline in consolidated December quarter net at Rs 6,257.55 crore, largely because of a higher base in the year-ago period where it had benefitted from a Rs 4,500 crore one-off income. On a standalone basis, the city-headquartered lender's net profit came in at Rs 5,196.22 crore as against Rs 5,583.36 crore in the year-ago period and Rs 4,574.16 crore in the preceding September quarter. SBI chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara told reporters that the year-ago period had seen the resolution of the Essar Steel loans, resulting in an over Rs 4,000 crore interest income and Rs 500 crore other income benefit.
Hindujas have virtually decided to sell their 5.1 per cent stake in mobile company Hutch-Essar to Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd for an estimated value up to $450 million (Rs 20.25 billion).
Just six months after pulling out of Hutchison Essar, the Hinduja group is set to throw its hat into the ring for the country's fourth largest telecom company.
India's biggest firm, Reliance Industries, has decided to cut salaries by 10 per cent in its oil and refining divisions. Several smaller companies like Kajaria Ceramics have followed suit with cuts as high as 40 per cent for those earning more than Rs 50 lakh.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday took stock of the power ministry's ambitious plans to set up five ultra mega power projects of 4,000 MW each envisaging an investment of Rs 75,000 crore
Naxal violence in Orissa has also put several investment proposals in jeopardy.
The department of telecom is understood to have raised certain queries including details on the equity structure in Hutch Essar, while processing its application seeking a STD license.
Anil Agarwal breaks into big three; Anil Ambani group out of top 10; Essar, Adani lose out to JSW, Shiv Nadar & Motherson Sumi
The government freed diesel pricing last October, providing a level playing field to private companies like Reliance and Essar Oil.
If IOC is not allowed to run its own affairs, then we can see it close down in the next 10 to 15 years, warns Sudhir Bisht.
The circular says even a day's delay in servicing loans would be now taken as a 'default'. And once in default, for loans above Rs 2,000 crore, the banks will have to arrive at a resolution within 180 days, else lenders will have to file an application under the IBC within 15 days.
Officials say telco still keen on process.
Cut-throat competition, high spectrum costs, and frequent flip-flops in government policies have made it difficult for Vodafone to make money in the country.
The government may be waiting for the outcome of an arbitration initiated against its levy of Rs 10,247 crore retrospective tax on UK's Cairn Energy Plc before deciding on appealing against losing a tax case against Vodafone Group, sources said. An international arbitral tribunal is expected to give a decree within next few days on Cairn Energy Plc's challenge to the Indian government seeking Rs 10,247 crore in retrospective taxes. If the arbitration award in the Cairn cases goes against India, the government has to pay the British firm over Rs 7,600 crore to reverse the dividend and tax refund it had ceased and shares it sold to recover part of the tax demand.
An alleged unauthorised communication equipment has been seized from the office of prominent NGO Greenpeace at a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and two persons have been arrested for trying to disrupt the police probe, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
Five out of the top 10 companies in Fortune 500 list of Indian companies are from the oil sector.
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RPG Industries, Hindalco, SAIL, Jindal Steel, Monnet Ispat, GVK Power and Jaiprakash Associates among companies summoned for review.
Royal Dutch/Shell on Tuesday said it plans to invest Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) in setting up a bulk cargo and container terminal at Hazira port, where it has built an LNG receiving terminal.
Bharti Cellular Limited CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia on Friday got a breather from the Supreme Court which exempted them from personal appearance in the trial court in a case of alleged irregularities related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002.
Singapore based telecom firm SingTel, which holds over 30 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel, on Wednesday said it has full faith in the company's corporate governance standards under the leadership of company's chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.
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