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Essar Group Moves its Vodafone Shareholding into Holding Company

India's essar Group is reported to have moved part of its 33% stake in Vodafone essar to a new stand-alone company with the intention to use it as collateral for fund raising purposes. A person privy to the development told the Economic Times that the diversified essar group has transferred a 10.97% stake from its telecom arm essar Teleholdings to a newly-created firm ETHL Communications Holdings.  more

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Vodafone Essar Told to Stop Cricket Promotion

..ion logos on its marketing materials. The ICC has warned that it might take legal action if necessary. "The use of our event marks and logos creates a clear link with the event and implies that Vodafone has an official association with ICC and t more

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Hutchison Warns Off Possible Indian Tax Liability in Sale to Vodafone

Hutchison Telecom International has accepted that it might have to make some payments in regards to the ongoing tax dispute in India over the sale of its stake in Hutchison essar to Vodafone in May 2007. Although the transaction technically occurred outside India, the government has been suing Vodafone for up to US$2 billion in sales tax that it claims is owed to it.  more

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Fitch Revises Vodafone's Outlook to Negative

Fitch Ratings has changed Vodafone's Issuer Default Ratings outlook to negative, although it affirmed the company's current ratings for long-term Issuer Default (IDR) and senior unsecured ratings at 'A-' (A minus) and Short-term IDR at 'F2'.  more

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Vodafone Raises Debt for Indian Expansion

Vodafone essar, the company's Indian subsidiary is reported to have sucessfully raised around Rs 10,000 crore (US$2 billion) in a 5-year debt financing for network expansion and the forthcoming 3G license auction. The loan was arranged by the State Bank of India Capital Markets.  more

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Vodafone to Expand Ringback Tone Deal into Emerging Markets

Vodafone has signed a deal with India based OnMobile to offer ringback tones in its emerging markets. Currently, millions of Vodafone essar customers in India use OnMobile's ring back tone service, which will be rolled out across Vodafone's other emerging markets from the Spring.  more

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India's Aircel Reported to be in Talks to Buy Loop Mobile

India's Aircel Cellular is reported to be in talks to buy Mumbai based Loop Mobile (formerly BPL Mobile), which is owned by the Ruias of the essar group. Both companies have been holding discussions for around seven months now, two people familiar with the discussions told the Economic Times.  more

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Tata Merges Towers Division with Quippo Telecom

As has been long anticipated, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has announced the details of plans to merge its tower division, Wireless Tata Telecom Infrastructure (WTTI), with Srei group's Quippo Telecom Infrastructure (QTIL).  more

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India Added a Record 7.7 Million GSM Subcribers in October

India's GSM networks added a record breaking 7.7 million net customers in October - reports the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI). The total GSM base now stands at 241.4 million as at the end of last month.  more

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Vodafone India Fined Over Embaressing Caller Tune

India's Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has fined Vodafone essar a total of Rs 20,000 (US$416) for activating a "cheap and vulgar" caller tune on a lawyer's mobile phone without her consent.  more

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