Bollywood’s fastest 100 crore grosser of all times
2G Scam
1. 2G Licensing
Number of
Name of company Parent group licenses
cancelled
Joint venture between Swan Telecom of
Etisalat-DB 15
India and Etisalat of UAE
Aditya Birla Groupof India
Idea Cellular (49.05%), Axiata Group Berhad of Malaysia 13
(15%) & Providence Equity(10.6%)of USA
Loop Mobile formerly
Owned by Khaitan Holding Group 21
BPL Mobile
Joint venture between C Sivasankaran of
India and Batelco of Bahrain. After the
Supreme Court's decision Batelco sold its
S Tel 6
42.7% stake to C Sivasankaran company
Sky City Foundation Ltd. for $175
million[188]
Sistema Shyam
Joint venture between Shyam group of
TeleServices Limited, 21
Indian and Sistema of Russia
now MTS India
2. Number of
Name of company Parent group licenses
cancelled
Tata Teleservices Owned by Tata Group of India 3
Joint venture between Unitech Group of
Uninor 22
India and Telenor of Norway Unitech Group
Videocon
21
Telecommunications Owned by Videocon group of India
Limited
3. Number
Telecom regions
Name of of
for which license Remarks
Company license
was granted
granted
Haryana,
Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu
Adonis Projects
& Kashmir, 6
Pvt. Ltd.
Punjab,
Adonis Projects, Nahan
Rajasthan, Uttar
Properties, Aska Projects, Volga
Pradesh (East)
Properties, Azare Properties &
Assam, Bihar, Hudson Properties were acquired
North East, by Unitech. Unitech
Nahan Properties
Orissa, Uttar 6 Infrastructure and Unitech
Pvt. Ltd.
Pradesh (East), Builders & Estates were already
West Bengal subsidiaries of Unitech Group.
So in 2008Unitech had 22 2G
Aska Projects Andhra Pradesh,
3 licenses. Later in the same year
Ltd. Kerala, Karnataka
Norway based
Gujarat, Madhya company Telenor bought
Volga Properties
Pradesh, 3 majority stake in the telecom
Pvt. Ltd.
Maharashtra company from the Unitech
Group. Now it offers services
Azure Properties
Kolkata 1 underUninor brand holding 22
Ltd.
pan India licences.
Hudson
Delhi 1
Properties
Unitech Builders Tamil Nadu
1
& Estates Pvt. (including
5. North East,
Orissa, Rajasthan,
Tamil Nadu
(including
Chennai), Uttar
Pradesh (East),
Uttar Pradesh
(West), West
Bengal, Delhi,
Mumbai
Madhya Pradesh,
Kerala, Kolkata,
Punjab, Uttar
Pradesh (East),
Uttar Pradesh
(West), West
Bengal, Andhra Shyam Telelink Limited &
Pradesh, Delhi, Shyani Telelink Limited operate
Shyam Telelink together with their combined 21
Haryana, 17
Limited licenses. During late 2008
Karnataka,
Maharashtra, Russia based
Orissa, Tamil group Sistema bought majority
Nadu (including stake in the telecom company
Chennai), Assam, and now they operate under
Jammu & brand name MTS India.
Kashmir, North
East
Mumbai, Bihar,
Shyani Telelink
Gujarat, Himachal 4
Limited
Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh, In 2008, Swan Telecom merged
Swan Telecom Gujarat, Haryana, itself with Allianz Infratech (P)
13
Pvt. Ltd. Karnataka, Ltd. During late 2008 Abu
Kerala, Dhabi's Etisalat bought about 45
6. Maharashtra, percent of the company and
Punjab, renamed it to Etisalat DB
Rajasthan, Tamil Telecom
Nadu (including
Chennai), Uttar
Pradesh (East),
Uttar Pradesh
(West), Delhi,
Mumbai
Allianz Infratech Bihar, Madhya
2
(P) Ltd. Pradesh
Assam, Punjab,
Karnataka,
Jammu and Idea Cellular bought Spice
Kashmir, North Communications Ltd. in 2008
Idea Cellular East, Kolkata, 9 for an amount of
West Bengal, 2,700 crore (US$538.65
Orissa, Tamil million).[20] So out of 122
Nadu (including spectrum licenses sold in
Chennai) 2008 Idea Cellular owns 13
Spice Delhi, Andhra licenses
Communications Pradesh, Haryana, 4
Ltd. Maharashtra
In January 2009, Bahrain
Telecommunications signed a
Assam, Jammu deal withS Tel to buy 49%
and Kashmir, shares in S Tel for $225
S Tel Orissa, North 6 million. C Sivasankaran owns
East, Bihar, the remaining (51%)
Himachal Pradesh share.[21][22] In May 2009, Sahara
Group bought 11.7% stake in S
Tel[23]
Tata Jammu and 3 In late 2008 promoters of Tata
7. Teleservices Kashmir, Assam, Teleservices sold 26% equity
North East stake to a Japanese telecom
giant NTT Docomo for about
13,070 crore (US$2.61
billion) or an enterprise value
of 50,269 crore (US$10.03
billion).[24]