The Indian operation will cease to be a subsidiary for the British parent
Merger was necessitated by launch of Reliance Jio Infocomm
Court told Vodafone that it can either say that Trai took no action or orders of Trai were wrong
The total tax demand stands at Rs 14,300 crore, which includes interest and penalty
Customer simply needs to share the OTP, instead of the mobile number with the retailer
Vodafone plans to fight back by merging its Indian subsidiary with smaller rival Idea Cellular
analysts at Edelweiss believe that the Idea-Vodafone merger will help the combined entity to take on RJio more aggressively
4 GB and 22 GB data costs Rs 250 and Rs 999, respectively
It will also offer unlimited local voice calls with one-hour validity for Rs 7
By March 2017, it plans to cover almost all major towns in Assam
TRAI had also recommended imposition of penalty of Rs 1,050 crore on Airtel
It has invested Rs 3,350 cr in H1FY17; has 200 mn subscribers of which 69.6 mn are data subscribers
The petition mentions that the penalty is not covered under the Quality of Service regulations
TRAI has recommended imposition of a fine of Rs 50 crore for each of the 21 circles of Vodafone, except in Jammu and Kashmir
Airtel, Vodafone's competitor in the telecom space, has already launched its payments bank
The Rs 144-149 pack will offer unlimited local and STD calls to Vodafone connections across the country with 50 MB data for 28 days
Airtel and Idea Cellular had launched many schemes to counter Jio's tariff with free voice calls to prepaid customers
Vodafone customers will get 2 GB of 4G data usage for Rs 255 instead of 1GB offered earlier
Initially, the 4G services will be launched in select towns of Tamil Nadu
UK-based telecom major Vodafone has to write down $5.5 billion for its India operations