VSNL wraps up Tata Power broadband buyout

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Our Corporate Bureau Mumbai
Last Updated : Feb 06 2013 | 7:14 AM IST
Internet and telecom major Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) has completed the acquisition Tata Power Company's (TPC) broadband unit ¿ Tata Power Broad Band (TPBB) ¿ for Rs 239 crore.
 
The acquisition would make TPBB a wholly-owned subsidiary of VSNL, which was offering broadband-based services under internet service provider (ISP) licences, VSNL informed the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday.
 
TPBB, which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of TPC prior to the buy, had invested in creating a 400 km-long optical fibre backbone in Mumbai and Pune.
 
Divesting the business was to allow both the companies -- TPC and TPBB -- to unlock 'considerable shareholder value', Ratan N Tata, chairman, the Tata group, had said The VSNL share ended at Rs 386.25 on the NSE on Monday.

 
 

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