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Tata Docomo was an Indian mobile network operator, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Tata Teleservices Tata Tele Business Services Limited (TTBSL), formally known as Tata Tele Services Limited (TTSL), is an Indian broadband, telecommunications and cloud service provider based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, an Indian conglome ...
. In October 2017,
Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as (d/b/a) Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, ...
announced a merger deal with
Tata Teleservices Tata Tele Business Services Limited (TTBSL), formally known as Tata Tele Services Limited (TTSL), is an Indian broadband, telecommunications and cloud service provider based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, an Indian conglome ...
and the acquisition of Tata Docomo. As of 21 July 2019, all Tata Docomo users are merged with Airtel network and provided with all the Airtel services. The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo,
Tata Teleservices Tata Tele Business Services Limited (TTBSL), formally known as Tata Tele Services Limited (TTSL), is an Indian broadband, telecommunications and cloud service provider based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, an Indian conglome ...
(TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into
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from 1 July 2019.


History

Tata Docomo was part of the Indian conglomerate
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. The company received the licence to operate GSM services in nineteen telecom circles and was allotted spectrum in eighteen of these circles and launched GSM services on 24 June 2009. It began operations first in
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and currently operates GSM services in eighteen of twenty two telecom circles. It has licences to operate in
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but has not been allocated spectrum from the Government. Docomo provides services throughout India. Tata Docomo offers both prepaid and postpaid
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services. It has become very popular with its one-second pulse, especially in semi-urban and rural areas. In November 2008, NTT Docomo invested in Tata Teleservices, at a share for a 26.5% stake in the latter. Docomo, TTSL and Tata Sons had in March 2009 signed shareholder agreement for the business alliance. In March 2009, Docomo acquired a 27.31% in Tata Teleservices for Rs 12,924 crore and 20.25% in Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, the listed arm of TTSL, for 949 crore. Overall, Docomo holds 26.5% in Tata Teleservices. On 5 November 2010, Tata Docomo became the first private sector telecom company to launch 3G services in India. Tata Docomo had about 49 million users at the end of March 2017. In April 2011, Tata Docomo signed
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actor
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as its
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on a three-year contract, now the contract is expired. For the southern states of
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and
Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
, actors Vijay and
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are the brand ambassadors respectively. In October 2017,
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announced its acquisition of Tata Docomo having roughly 17 million subscribers.


Rebranding & Reformation

On 20 October 2011, the
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brought its brands – Indicom (
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), Walky (Fixed Wireless Phone), Photon INTERNET – under the Tata Docomo brand. All subscribers to these services were transited to the Tata Docomo's network on 20 October 2011. In 2015, Virgin Mobile India company was merged with Tata Docomo.
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company was merged with Tata Docomo on 15 August 2018. All operations around these companies across India had merged into Tata Docomo's entity to form second largest CDMA and GSM network in India.


NTT Docomo Exit

According to the agreement between the
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and NTT Docomo, the latter had the right to sell its stake if Tata Docomo missed performance targets, with Tata getting right of the first refusal. On 25 April 2014, NTT Docomo had announced that they would sell all of their shares in Tata Docomo and exit the Indian telecom industry as they had incurred a total loss of $1.3 billion. Under the joint venture agreement between the two groups, NTT Docomo would either increase its stake from 26.5% to 51%, or sell all of its shares, depending on the performance of Tata Docomo in the Indian market. Since Tata was unable to find a buyer for the shares, they sought the approval of the RBI, in November 2014, to buy back the shares from NTT Docomo for $1.1 billion (at 58.045 per share), half the price paid by them in 2009. The RBI had approved the deal in January 2015, but however, went back on their decision and rejected the deal in March 2015, citing
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regulations. Following the RBI decision, the Tata Group offered to purchase Docomo's stake at 23.34 a share on the basis of a fair market value determined on 30 June 2014 by
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. NTT Docomo then moved the
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seeking a valuation of 58 a share. On 28 February 2017, Tata and NTT Docomo resolved their dispute, after the former announced that it would pay the latter US$1.18 billion in exchange for NTT Docomo's shares in the joint venture. On 31 October, $1.27 billion was paid to NTT Docomo by Tata Sons, thus ending the dispute.


Acquisition by Bharti Airtel

On 12 October 2017, Bharti Airtel proposed a deal for the acquisition of Tata Group's Telecommunications including, Tata Teleservices and Tata Docomo. Tata Group made deal with Airtel, to sell its assets in debt-cash free deal which will only include TTSL's spectrum liability. Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the Department of Telecom (DoT) gave approval for Airtel to proceed with the deal.


Network


3G

On 19 May 2010, the 3G
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in India ended. Tata Teleservices paid 5,864.29 crores for spectrum in 10 circles. These circles obtained 3G licences and they are
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Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
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Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
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Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...
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Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...
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Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
, and Uttar Pradesh (West).


References

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