News for 'Manoj Tirodkar'

From a Mumbai chawl to the Forbes rich list!

At a dinner banquet last year at the Taj Mahal rooftop - after successfully concluding a merger between Aircel's towers and group company GTL Infrastructure - Tirodkar was hailed as sagacious, humble and hands-on by a motley bunch of suave bankers, analysts and media persons.

GTL Infra-Rel Infratel merger to be over by Aug

The world's largest independent telecom masts player GTL Infrastructure on Wednesday said its expects to complete the merger of Reliance Infratel's tower operations with itself by the middle of next month.

The creation of a Rs 50,000-crore giant

Reliance Infratel, the tower arm of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, has agreed to merge its 50,000-tower portfolio with GTL Infrastructure in a cash and stock deal, making it arguably one of the largest merger and acquisition transactions in India.

'People had doubts when we did the Aircel deal'

Manoj Tirodkar, chairman of GTL Infra, spoke to Arijit Barman & Katya Naidu bout the different aspects of the transaction.

GTL acquires Malaysia network firm for $25 mn

Network services major GTL has acquired a Malaysia-based network planning and optimisation company, ADA Cellworks, in an all-cash deal of $25 million (around Rs 100 crore).

GTL sells IT services biz to France Telecom arm

Network services provider GTL has sold its enterprise network services and managed services business to Orange Business Service, an arm of France Telecom, for about Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) in cash.

GTL lines up Rs 1100 cr overseas acquisitions

GTL has placed non-binding offers on five companies in the US and Europe and lined up acquisitions worth Rs 1,100 crore (Rs 11 billion) in the next two quarters.

GTL eyeing buys in US, West Asia