If all goes well according to the Anil Ambani’s planning to take over Hutchison Essar, the Reliance Communications will get the top most position in India’s telecom industry. The Reliance Com. will be the largest telecom company in the country.

With taking control of Hutchison Essar’s GSM mobile services in India, Reliance’s market share would go to more than 36.3 per cent from 20 per cent in terms of GSM and CDMA combined.

If the take over will go through, Rel. Com. will fetch top position from Bharti. Bharti has over 22 per cent of market share and a subscriber base of more than 30.3 million in India. Reliance’s subscriber base will go up from currently 28.6 million to more than 46 million.

Reliance has now the GSM operations in nine circles. It will enter into 16 GSM circles across the country with this take over.

According to Macquaire Research, If the acquisition comes through, Reliance Com. will become market leader in 13 out of the 16 circles where Hutch is operating currently.

The West Bengal and Kolkata will be only overlapped circles where both Hutch as well as Reliance is operating GSM services.

On the financial angle equity the Relinace will have the upper hand over its competitors in this area.

# The Reliance-Hutch has the second highest ARPU (Rs 351) in the business after Bharti (Rs 372).

# Hutch generates the best average revenue per minute and Reliance one of the lowest.

# In the 12 of the circles its cost of network operations would be lower than other competitors.

# According to Macquaire Research the combined revenues of Reliance-Hutch will have greater revenue growth.

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