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Tata Docomo was an Indian mobile network operator, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Teleservices deriving its name from NTT Docomo who invested in the company in 2008. In October-2017, Bharti Airtel announced a merger deal with Tata Teleservices and the acquisition of Tata Docomo.[3] As of 07-July-2019, all Tata Docomo users were migrated to Bharti Airtel and hence became Airtel users.

The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel from 01-July-2019.[4][5][6]

History

Tata Docomo was part of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group. The company received the license to operate GSM services in nineteen telecom circles and was allotted spectrum in eighteen of these circles and launched GSM services on 24-June-2009. It began operations first in South India and had operated GSM services in eighteen of twenty-two telecom circles. It had licences to operate in Delhi but had not been allocated spectrum from the Government.[7] Docomo provided services throughout India. Tata Docomo offered both prepaid and postpaid Mobile Phone services. It became very popular with its one-second pulse, especially in semi-urban and rural areas.

In November-2008, NTT Docomo invested ₹12,740 crore (equivalent to ₹320 billionorUS$3.4 billion in 2023) in Tata Teleservices, at ₹117 (equivalent to ₹290orUS$3.10 in 2023) a share for a 26.5% stake in the latter.[8][9] Docomo, TTSL and Tata Sons had in March-2009 signed shareholder agreement for the business alliance. In March-2009, Docomo acquired 27.31% of Tata Teleservices for Rs 12,924 crore and 20.25% in Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, the listed arm of TTSL, for ₹949 crore. Overall, Docomo held 26.5% in Tata Teleservices.[10]

On 05-November-2010, Tata Docomo became the first private sector telecom company to launch 3G services in India. Tata Docomo had about 49 million users at the end of March-2017.

In April-2011, Tata Docomo signed Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor as its brand ambassador on a three-year contract.[11] For the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, actors Vijay and Ram Charan were the brand ambassadors respectively.

In October-2017, Bharti Airtel announced its acquisition of Tata Docomo having roughly 17 million subscribers.[12]

Rebranding & Reformation

On 20-October-2011, the Tata Group brought its brands – Indicom (CDMA), Walky (Fixed Wireless Phone), and Photon INTERNET – under the Tata Docomo brand. All subscribers to these services were transited to Tata Docomo's network on 20-October-2011. In 2015, Virgin Mobile India also merged with Tata Docomo. T24 Mobile merged with Tata Docomo on 15-August-2018.[13] All operations across India of said companies had merged into Tata Docomo's entity to form the second largest CDMA and GSM network in India.

NTT Docomo Exit

According to the agreement between the Tata Group and NTT Docomo, the latter had the right to sell its stake if Tata Docomo missed performance targets, with Tata getting the right of the first refusal.[9][14] On 25-April-2014, NTT Docomo had announced that they would sell all of their shares in Tata Docomo and exit the Indian telecom industry as they had incurred a total loss of $1.3 billion. Under the joint venture agreement between the two groups, NTT Docomo would either increase its stake from 26.5% to 51% or sell all of its shares, depending on the performance of Tata Docomo in the Indian market.[15]

Dado que Tata no pudo encontrar un comprador para las acciones, solicitó la aprobación del RBI , en noviembre de 2014, para recomprar las acciones de NTT Docomo por 1.100 millones de dólares (a 58,045 rupias por acción), la mitad del precio que pagaron en 2009. El RBI aprobó el acuerdo en enero de 2015, pero revocó su decisión y lo rechazó en marzo de 2015, citando las regulaciones de FEMA . [ 16 ] Tras la decisión del RBI, el Grupo Tata ofreció comprar la participación de Docomo a 23,34 rupias por acción sobre la base de un valor justo de mercado determinado el 30 de junio de 2014 por PwC . [ 9 ] NTT Docomo entonces acudió a la Corte de Arbitraje Internacional de Londres solicitando una valoración de 58 rupias por acción. [ 17 ]

El 28 de febrero de 2017, Tata y NTT Docomo resolvieron su disputa, luego de que la primera anunciara que pagaría a la segunda US$1.18 mil millones a cambio de las acciones de NTT Docomo en la empresa conjunta. [ 18 ] El 31 de octubre, Tata Sons pagó US$1.27 mil millones a NTT Docomo, poniendo fin así a la disputa. [ 19 ]

Adquisición por parte de Bharti Airtel.

El 12 de octubre de 2017, Bharti Airtel propuso un acuerdo para la adquisición de las telecomunicaciones del Grupo Tata, incluyendo Tata Teleservices y Tata Docomo. El Grupo Tata llegó a un acuerdo con Airtel para vender sus activos en una transacción libre de deuda y efectivo, que solo incluiría la responsabilidad por el espectro de TTSL. [ 20 ] La Comisión de Competencia de la India (CCI) y el Departamento de Telecomunicaciones (DoT) dieron su aprobación para que Airtel procediera con el acuerdo.

Red

3G

El 19 de mayo de 2010 finalizó la subasta del espectro 3G en India. Tata Teleservices pagó 5.864,29 millones de rupias por el espectro en 10 círculos. Estos círculos obtuvieron licencias 3G y son Madhya Pradesh y Chhattisgarh , Gujarat , Haryana , Karnataka , Kerala , Maharashtra y Goa , Punjab y Uttar Pradesh (Oeste) . [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ]

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Comunicado de prensa sobre datos de suscripción de telecomunicaciones al 12 de febrero de 2018" (PDF) . Autoridad Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones de la India . 17 de marzo de 2018. Archivado del original (PDF) el 12 de febrero de 2019. Consultado el 21 de marzo de 2018 .
  2. ↑"Tata Docomo". Economic Times. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. ↑"Airtel acquired Tata Mobile Business". Business Standard. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  4. ↑"Airtel Completes Merger of Tata". Livemint. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  5. ↑"Airtel's Tata merger deal". Business Line. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  6. ↑"DoT approved deal of Tata and Bharti Airtel". Economic Times. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  7. ↑"About Tata DOCOMO | 3G Mobiles in India | 3G Network". Askbiography.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  8. ↑"Tatas agree to pay $1.18 bn to NTT DoCoMo for exit". The Times of India. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  9. 123Chatterjee, Dev (20 July 2015). "Tata offers to buy out Docomo at Rs 23.3 a share". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  10. ↑"DoCoMo's India exit gets more painful after Tatas offer just Rs 23.34 a share for Tata Tele stake". Firstpost. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  11. ↑"Tata DOCOMO ropes in Ranbir Kapoor as brand ambassador". The Times Of India. 7 April 2011. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013.
  12. ↑"Bharti Airtel acquires Tata's mobile arm". The Hindu. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  13. ↑"Tata Tele Data Products Get New Identity With Docomo Brand". 19 October 2011.
  14. ↑"With DoCoMo-Tata Dispute Raging, India Discourages Foreign Investment". Forbes. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  15. ↑Reeba Zachariah (26 April 2014). "DoCoMo to exit India at $1.3 billion loss". The Times of India.
  16. ↑ ET Bureau (25 de marzo de 2015). "El RBI rechaza la oferta de Tata por la participación de DoCoMo en Teleservices" . The Economic Times .
  17. ↑ Dev Chatterjee (6 de enero de 2015). "Docomo planea una acción de ejecución hipotecaria contra Tata Sons" . Business Standard .
  18. ↑ Oficina, Nuestra (28 de febrero de 2017). "Tata Sons-NTT DoCoMo entierran el hacha de guerra" . The Hindu Business Line . Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2017 .{{cite web}}: |last1=tiene nombre genérico ( ayuda )
  19. ↑ Mohile, Shally Seth (31 de octubre de 2017). "Se resuelve la disputa entre Tata y Docomo: Tata Sons paga 1.270 millones de dólares en concepto de indemnización arbitral" .
  20. ↑ Barman, Arijit; Guha, Romit (13 de octubre de 2017). "Tata Teleservices venderá su negocio de telefonía móvil inalámbrica a Bharti Airtel" – vía The Economic Times.
  21. ↑ "Finaliza la subasta de 3G en India; resultados por operador y región" . 19 de mayo de 2010.
  22. ↑ "Light Reading India – IP y convergencia – Aircel une fuerzas para 3G – Análisis de noticias de telecomunicaciones" . Lightreading.com. 9 de enero de 2011. Archivado del original el 16 de agosto de 2011. Consultado el 9 de septiembre de 2014 .
  23. ↑ "Tata Docomo y Aircel rescinden su acuerdo de roaming 3G" . Telecomtalk.info. 14 de diciembre de 2011. Consultado el 28 de junio de 2012 .
  24. ↑ "Docomo lanza una función para que los usuarios agreguen datos 2G/3G no utilizados" . www.wapmasterszone.com . WapmasterZone . Consultado el 2 de febrero de 2015 .