Vodafone India and Idea Cellular merged to form Vodafone Idea Limited in 2018. This created the largest telecom operator in India with over 400 million subscribers. The merger aimed to help both companies tackle increased competition from Reliance Jio and reduce debt levels. It combined Vodafone's network assets and spectrum holdings with Idea's mobile customer base. The new entity faces challenges in integrating operations while improving network quality and raising funds, but may benefit customers through competitive plans and new technologies.
2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Telecom industry in
India
• Major telecom networks
in India
• What is merger
• Vodafone India
• Idea cellular Ltd
• Vodafone Idea Ltd
• Positive and negative
effects of merger
• Challenges
• Why merger
• Benefits to customers
• Current status
• Conclusion
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3. INTRODUCTION
• Vodafone India and idea cellular are now
Vodafone idea limited
• Top spot in the telecom industry
• Both companies will continue with their
individual brands on the public front
• Merger entity will have a better hold on digital
services
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4. TELECOM INDUSTRY IN INDIA
• Made up of all telecommunication and
internet service provider
• Evolution of mobile communication and
information today
• World’s second largest telecommunication
market
• the liberal and reformed policies of GOI have
been instrumental along with strong consumer
demand in the rapid growth in telecom sector
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5. • Creating opportunity for new business
• As of june 2018, overall tele density stood at
89%
• Urban tele density stood at 158.16% and rural
tele density at 57.99%
• With daily incresment in subscribers base,
there have been a lot of investments and
development in the sector
• India stands second in terms of total internet
users
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6. Major Telecom Networks In India
• BSNL
• MTNL
• Airtel
• Reliance communication
• Aircel
• Vodafone
• Idea Cellular
• Reliance Jio
• Telenor India
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8. What is Merger ?
• A Merger is a corporate strategy of combining
different companies into a single company
• Combination involves - transfer of ownership,
either to a stock swap or cash payment
• In practice, both companies surrender their
stock and issue new stock as a new company.
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10. Vodafone India
• Vodafone India was the Indian subsidiary of
UK based Vodafone group
• Head office in Mumbai
• CEO - Sunil Sood
• Ceased operations - 31 August 2018
• Second largest telecommunication operator in
India
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12. Idea
• Idea cellular limited was an Indian mobile
network operator owned by Aditya Birla
Group
• Headquarter was in Mumbai
• Fourth largest telecommunication operator in
India
• CEO - Himanshu Kapania
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13. Idea Cellular Limited
Industry Telecommunication
Revenue Rs 35,475 crore
Operating income Rs 10,291 crore
Subscribers 200 million
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14. Vodafone Idea Limited
• Vodafone India and Idea Cellular agreed to
merge .
• 31st AUG 2018- renamed as Vodafone Idea
Ltd.
• Kumar Mangalam Birla – Chairman
Balesh Sharma -CEO
• The merged entity will be jointly controlled by
Vodafone and Aditya Birla group.
• Vodafone Group - 45.1% stake
Idea Group – 26%
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15. • The Birla group have the right to buy
additional 9.5% stake from Vodafone
• Board of combined entity will be comprised of
12 directors.
• The merger of both the companies become the
countries largest players.
• Major competitors
• Spread of 15000 branded stores and 1.7m retail
touch points
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16. Positive and Negative Effects of
Merger
Positive
• Greater stability and better network
• Increase in market share
• Highest holder of spectrum
• Beneficial for government
• More than 450 million subscribers
• Reduce duplication
• Promote foreign investment.
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17. Negative
• Job loss
• Effecting the vendors
• Diseconomy of scale
• Less choice
• May turn out to be a monopoly
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18. Challenges
• Catching up with the competition
• Debt pay off
• Raising of funds
• Providing stable network
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19. Why merger ?
• To tackle dominance created by Reliance Jio.
• To become countries largest telecom operator.
• To pare its debts.
• To create a better mobile network provider.
• To increase market share and revenue.
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20. Benefits to customers
• Better network quality
• New technology
• Competitive offers
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21. Current Status
• Vodafone idea ltd become the largest telecom
operator in India.
• Become the second largest telecom operator in
the world.
• CEO: Balesh Sharma
• Vodafone :45.1% shares .Adhithya Birla group
:26%
• Market share of 35.61% with 418.745 million
subscribers..
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22. • Broadband network of 240,000sites with
distribution to 1.7 million retail outlets
• Operating income :7202.2cr($1.0billion)
• Net income : 4950.5cr($690million)
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25. Conclusion
• India became the World’s second largest
telecommunication market.
• This merger leads to more FDI in India
• This merger helps to improve the overall
development of the telecom industry
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