Bharti Airtel rings loud on plan to acquire Videocon’s spectrum in six circles for Rs 4,428 crore

17 Mar 2016 Evaluate

Bharti Airtel is currently trading at Rs. 350.55, up by 10.90 points or 3.21% from its previous closing of Rs. 339.65 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 339.65 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 352.00 and Rs. 339.00 respectively. So far 141325 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 452.45 on 21-Jul-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 282.30 on 29-Jan-2016.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 352.00 and Rs. 332.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 139289.41 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 65.62% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 25.40% and 8.93% respectively.

Bharti Airtel has entered into a definitive agreement with Videocon Telecommunications (VTL) to acquire, at an aggregate consideration of Rs 4,428.00 crore, rights to use 2 x 5 MHz spectrum in the 1800 MHz Band allotted to VTL by the Government of India, Ministry of Communication & IT, Department of Telecommunication (DoT) on April 05, 2013 for six circles, namely, Bihar; Haryana; Madhya Pradesh; UP (East); UP (West) and Gujarat.

The agreement is in terms of the Guidelines for Trading of Access Spectrum by Access Service Providers dated October 12, 2015 issued by the WPC Wing of the DoT (Spectrum Trading Guidelines). The aforesaid Spectrum is valid up to December 18, 2032. The closing of the Transaction is subject to satisfaction of the standard conditions (including conditions stated in the Spectrum Trading Guidelines), as are normal to such transactions.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.

 

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