Essar Global Fund, the Ruia company that invested $1.3 billion in telecommunications, towers and business process outsourcing over the years, made $6.5 billion, a five-fold return, when it flipped......
Essar's only telecom venture, Yu Telecom in Kenya, has raised its market share by eroding that of the market leader, Safaricom.The operator was acquired four years earlier by Essar, when the latter......
The Essar group is planning to expand its presence in the African continent by setting up a 10-million tonne (mt) port in Mozambique, at a cost of $275 million (Rs 1,496 crore). “As a group,......
The $5 billion cash that Essar would get from Vodafone may seem a windfall. In reality, the amount will be far less.Using its put option in the telecom Vodafone Essar joint venture as collateral,......
Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are rolling out mobile banking services, but it remains to be seen how the concept catches up with consumer interest in 2011.Mobile phone penetration is set to reach 60......