#Vodafone India-Idea Cellular merger: Honoured to be chairman of new company, says Kumar Mangalam Birla

Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on Monday said that he is "pleased and honoured to be the chairman" of the new merged company after Idea Cellular approved its amalgamation with Vodafone India and Vodafone Mobile Services. "It gives me immense pleasure that we reached to an agreement to merge our companies Idea Cellular and Vodafone. We are number two and number three companies in present telecom sector with a customer base of 400 million," Birla said. The move will create the country’s biggest telecom services provider with a customer base of over 394 million.