Vodafone to swap debt for 35.8% government stake
Centre will also bag a share of 9.5 per cent in Tata Teleservices which has chosen the same option
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Centre will also bag a share of 9.5 per cent in Tata Teleservices which has chosen the same option
The world’s cheapest data costs have done wonders for India by helping spread the benefits of the internet beyond a tiny, urban, affluent class. But there’s a problem: Successive governments have hounded telecom operators with outlandish financial demands. Now things have gone too far. Vodafone Idea Ltd., one of the three private-sector competitors left standing in what used to be a field of a dozen players, is very close to crumbling under the weight of its $30 billion debt. That will effectively turn the wireless market in the nation of 1.4 billion people into a duopoly. Maybe not immed...