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Kumar Mangalam Birla to be chairman of merged Idea-Vodafone company

Kumar Mangalam Birla to be chairman of merged Idea-Vodafone company

| | 20 Mar 2017, 02:13 pm
New Delhi, Mar 20 (IBNS): Kumar Mangalam Birla will be the chairman of the telecom company formed with the merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone, according to media reports.

Vodafone will appoint the CFO.

Vodafone will own 45.1 per cent of the merged entity, after it transfers about 4.9 per cent  to promoters of Idea and/or their affiliates for Rs 38.74 billion ($592.15 million) in cash, Idea said.

Idea Cellular, the third largest mobile operator in India  and the Indian unit of British telecom company Vodafone on Monday  announced a merger, creating the country's largest telecom operator in the face of the growing might of Reliance Communications' Jio, reports said.

At present, Vodaphone is the second largest telecom operator in India, a slot behind Bharti Airtel.

The new entity will likely have  around 40 crore customers or nearly one in every three customers in the country.

The combined entity of Aditya Birla group's Idea Cellular and Vodafone India will also have pan-India 3G/4G footprint, the companies said in a statement.

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