Monday, April 13, 2009

BSNL eyeing overseas acquisition


NEW DELHI, April 12 (PTI): After MTNL’s foray into Nepal and Mauritius, now its bigger counterpart BSNL is eying acquisitions of telecom companies abroad to get foothold in the global market.

“We are looking at expanding our business overseas through acquisitions of telecom companies abroad,” company’s CMD Kuldeep Goyal told PTI.

He said the criteria of acquiring a company would depend on the due diligence undertaken by it but its strategy is going to both organic and inorganic growth to drive revenues.

Goyal said BSNL’s Articles of Association empower it to go for bidding of telecom licences abroad and acquire companies if they fit into its growth parametres synergistically apart from the right valuations. BSNL along with TCIL may bid for telecom licence in Tunisia, he added.

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