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Article: NEW TELECOM OPERATORS CAN'T SELL STAKES FOR THREE YEARS: GOVERNMENT
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- The Hindustan Times
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- November 25, 2008
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New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- (IANS) Mergers and acquisitions between new telecom operators will be allowed only if they have completed three years of operations after being issued licenses, Telecom Minister A. Raja said here Tuesday.
Additionally, the market share of the merged entity in the relevant telecom region should not be more than 40 percent either in terms of subscribers separately for wireless and wired line phones, or in terms of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), he said.
"We have referred the three-year lock-in period to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority ...