India’s mobile market eyed by Vivendi France
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vivendi France may take over 51% of the India’s Datacom Solutions. Two rounds of talk have taken place between the officials of Vivendi and Datacom team and both the sides will meet again in a few weeks to take the discussion forward.
Owned by Videocon group, Datacom solutions has also attempted to sell a stake to Etisalat or Turkcell foundered during the credit crunch. Rumors were also there that America Movil or France Telecom could be interested in acquiring a stake in the company.
Datacom already has radio spectrum covering 21 of India’s 22 circles and have the advantage of its parent’s vast distribution network for selling phones and SIM cards, despite the late launch. Earlier, it was said that the firm is planning a US$2.8 billion GSM tender, but nothing seems to have happened since that was announced.
Tata Teleservices recieves the GSM spectrum, trial within 3 months (India)
Tata Teleservices, the Indian CDMA operator, along with other three operators Videocon’s Datacom Solutions, Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom, recieved the GSM spectrum to offer it’s services in Mumbai.
The competition will heat as to who earns the highest ARPU/month in the country.
All the four operators have been allotted “trial spectrum” of 4.4Mhz spectrum each in the 1800 Mhz band, with a timeframe for the trial. Tata Teleservices is, reportedly, required to finish the trials within the time span of 3 months.
