Analysis: India ruling to trigger telecoms industry shakeout

February 06, 12 by David Goldstein

Vodafone, for one, is wasting little time in capitalising on a blockbuster Indian court verdict that’s likely to shake up the world’s second-largest mobile phone market.

Within hours of a Thursday ruling by India’s highest court that all licences awarded in a scandal-tainted 2008 sale be revoked, jeopardising the operations of a handful of smaller carriers, the UK giant ran front-page newspaper ads inviting users of rival networks to sign up for its service without having to change their phone number.

To read this Reuters report in full, see: uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/05/uk-india-telecom-idUKTRE8140TR20120205

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