2G Licensing

Name of company

Parent group

Number of licenses cancelled

Etisalat-DB

Joint venture between Swan Telecom of India and Etisalat of UAE

15

Idea Cellular

Aditya Birla Groupof India (49.05%), Axiata Group Berhad of Malaysia 13 (15%) & Providence Equity(10.6%)of USA

Loop Mobile formerly BPL Mobile

Owned by Khaitan Holding Group

21

S Tel

Joint venture between C Sivasankaran of India and Batelco of Bahrain. After the Supreme Court's decision Batelco sold its 42.7% stake to C Sivasankaran company Sky City Foundation Ltd. for $175 million[188]

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited, now MTS India

Joint venture between Shyam group of Indian and Sistema of Russia

21

Name of company

Parent group

Number of licenses cancelled 3

Tata Teleservices

Owned by Tata Group of India

Uninor

Joint venture between Unitech Group of 22 India and Telenor of Norway Unitech Group

Videocon Telecommunications Limited

Owned by Videocon group of India

21

Name of Company

Telecom regions for which license was granted Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (East)

Number of license granted

Remarks

Adonis Projects Pvt. Ltd.

6 Adonis Projects, Nahan Properties, Aska Projects, Volga Properties, Azare Properties & Hudson Properties were acquired by Unitech. Unitech Infrastructure and Unitech Builders & Estates were already subsidiaries of Unitech Group. So in 2008Unitech had 22 2G licenses. Later in the same year Norway based company Telenor bought majority stake in the telecom company from the Unitech Group. Now it offers services underUninor brand holding 22 pan India licences.

Assam, Bihar, North East, Nahan Properties Orissa, Uttar Pvt. Ltd. Pradesh (East), West Bengal Aska Projects Ltd.

Andhra Pradesh, 3 Kerala, Karnataka 3

Gujarat, Madhya Volga Properties Pradesh, Pvt. Ltd. Maharashtra Azure Properties Kolkata Ltd. Hudson Properties Delhi

1 1 1

Unitech Builders Tamil Nadu & Estates Pvt. (including

Ltd. Unitech Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd.

Chennai) Mumbai 1

Loop Telecom Pvt. Ltd.

Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal, Pradesh, Kerala, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, 21 Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North East Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu 21 & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,

Datacom Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Operates under brand name Videocon Telecommunications Limited

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 Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, 17 Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, North East Mumbai, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal 4 Pradesh Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, 13 Karnataka, Kerala, In 2008, Swan Telecom merged itself with Allianz Infratech (P) Ltd. During late 2008 Abu Dhabi's Etisalat bought about 45

Shyam Telelink Limited

Shyam Telelink Limited & Shyani Telelink Limited operate together with their combined 21 licenses. During late 2008 Russia based group Sistema bought majority stake in the telecom company and now they operate under brand name MTS India.

Shyani Telelink Limited

Swan Telecom Pvt. Ltd.

Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Delhi, Mumbai Allianz Infratech Bihar, Madhya (P) Ltd. Pradesh Assam, Punjab, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, North East, Kolkata, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai) 2

percent of the company and renamed it to Etisalat DB Telecom

Idea Cellular

Spice Delhi, Andhra Communications Pradesh, Haryana, 4 Ltd. Maharashtra

Idea Cellular bought Spice Communications Ltd. in 2008 for an amount of 2,700 crore (US$538.65 million).[20] So out of 122 spectrum licenses sold in 2008 Idea Cellular owns 13 licenses

S Tel

Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, North 6 East, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh

In January 2009, Bahrain Telecommunications signed a deal withS Tel to buy 49% shares in S Tel for $225 million. C Sivasankaran owns the remaining (51%) share.[21][22] In May 2009, Sahara Group bought 11.7% stake in S Tel[23] In late 2008 promoters of Tata

Tata

Jammu and

Teleservices

Kashmir, Assam, North East

Teleservices sold 26% equity 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]