Vodafone Concept (Vi) has appealed to the Division of Telecommunications (DoT) secretary, stating that its present monetary place doesn’t enable it to furnish a Rs 6,090.7 crore financial institution assure (BG) or make a money fee of Rs 5,493.2 crore in the direction of a shortfall within the 2015 spectrum public sale. Underneath these circumstances, the corporate has requested the DoT to not take “any coercive motion” towards the corporate, ET has reported, citing a duplicate of the letter it has seen.
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Firm’s Attraction to the DoT
This comes as Vi has neither submitted the required BG of Rs 6,090.7 crore nor made a money fee of Rs 5,493.2 crore to the DoT for the shortfall in its 2015 spectrum public sale funds by the March 10, 2025, deadline.
In line with experiences, Vi’s chief government Akshaya Moondra, has appealed to the DoT to urgently enable fairness conversion of the telco’s upcoming adjusted gross income (AGR) and buy dues associated to the 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 spectrum auctions, because the cash-strapped firm braces for a spike in regulatory payouts.
Moondra’s letter follows the telecom division’s choice to placed on maintain its proposal to waive the AGR dues of telcos amid an absence of consensus throughout the authorities’s prime echelons. The prevailing view throughout the authorities is that offering monetary reduction to non-public firms—a few of that are worthwhile—could be inappropriate.
“We urgently require money stream assist from DoT for AGR and spectrum instalments falling due… AGR dues and spectrum instalments for 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 auctions could also be permitted for fairness conversion on the earliest as envisaged below the Telecom Reform Package deal 2021,” Moondra reportedly said in a March 11 letter to the DoT secretary. In line with Vi’s letter, complete fairness conversions would quantity to Rs 36,950 crore “on an NPV (internet current worth) protected foundation.”
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Authorities Stake Implications
This might doubtlessly enhance the federal government’s stake in Vi to 49 p.c, together with a proposed fairness conversion of the Rs 13,809-crore spectrum fee installment associated to the 2015 public sale.
“We request your assist for fairness conversions as much as the edge of presidency of India shareholdings at 49 p.c, that’s, an quantity of Rs 36,950 crore on NPV protected foundation, topic to customary approvals at our finish,” Moondra stated, as per the report.
Nonetheless, with Vi’s present market capitalisation of roughly Rs 54,401 crore, a 49 p.c stake could be valued at round Rs 26,656.5 crore.
Amid its urgent monetary challenges, Vi has urged the DoT to swiftly contemplate changing its Rs 13,809-crore spectrum fee installment from the 2015 public sale into fairness, because the moratorium on these funds ends on April 10.
