2. TELECOM INDUSTRY

3. INTRODUCTION India's telecommunication network is the third largest in the world on the basis of its customer base

6. VODAFONE

7. Sashi and Ravi Ruia, the Indian brothers behind the Essar conglomerate. The Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics, Projects. Essar employs more than 50,000 people across offices in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

8. VODAFONE TAKEOVER Vodafone(Briton) A Foreign company Takes over HTIL(Whampoa group of Li-Ka Shing. Hong Kong A foreign company Hutchison Essor Indian Company Essor group Asim Ghosh-12% A.Singh and other companies (Minority) 67%

9. CEO s Asim Ghosh 61, will retire after leading the company for 10 years. He will continue as a non-executive member on the board of Vodafone Essar, the company said. Ghosh was managing director of Hutchison Max Telecom Pvt. Ltd, an operating company of Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, since 1998. Marten Pieters was earlier chief executive of Celtel International BV, a mobile-phone operator in several African countries, and currently a director on the board of Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular SA.