WORKING OF IDEA AND VODAFONE MERGED ENTITY AFTER THE MERGER HAS HAPPENED

Abstract

This study mainly focusses on the merger between mobile phone companies Idea Cellular and Vodafone India. The deal which is valued at $23 billion was announced on March 20th 2017 each of these two companies resulted in the creation of a new company valued at $23.2 billion totally transformed the market idea Vodafone gained the most users and emerged as the market leader while it took the second spot had over 320 million users by 2017 and had been the market leader in India for 15 consecutive years the joint deal happened for a few reasons but the biggest one was that reliance jio became part of the group I wrote this study paper to explain why these large telecom companies merged with a competitor and how this impacted the Indian telecom market I've put together all the key details of the deal and explained why the companies should come together in this study I reached a conclusion regarding the merger between Vodafone and idea and I also provided some advice for telecom companies on how to approach mergers and deals in the future.