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Largest Telecom Service Providers Public Companies in India
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Bharti Hexacom, Tata Communications and Sterlite Technologies.
 | Bharti Airtel Ltd is a telecommunications company. The company's segments include Mobile Services India, Mobile Services Africa, Mobile Services South Asia, Airtel Business, Passive Infrastructure Services, Homes Services, Digital TV Services, and others. It generates maximum revenue from the Mobile Services India segment. Mobile Services India services cover voice and data telecom services provided through wireless technology (2G /3G/4G) in India. It includes the captive national long-distance networks, which provide connectivity to the mobile services business in India. It also includes intra-city fibre networks. | $19 | -11% | $116B | $129B | 5.8x | 10.3x | ||
| Vodafone Idea Ltd is a telecommunications company that provides mobile services and operates under one segment namely Mobility services. Mobility services generates revenue from mobile services and constitutes the majority of overall company revenue. The company owns telecommunications infrastructure, such as fiber networks and mobile towers. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue in India. | $0 | +84% | $16B | $35B | 7.5x | 4.3x | ||
| Bharti Hexacom Ltd is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone, and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India, It offers services under the brand ‘Airtel’. The company has three reportable segments: Mobile Services: which covers voice and data telecom services provided through wireless technology (2G/4G/5G). This also includes intra-city fiber networks. Homes and Office Services: covers voice and data communications through fixed-line network and broadband technology for homes and offices. Unallocated: items include expenses/results, assets and liabilities of corporate headquarters of the company. Key revenue is generated from Mobile Services segment. | $16 | -26% | $8B | $8B | 8.4x | 15.5x | ||
| Tata Communications Ltd is the primary provider of international and national voice and data transmission long-distance services, internet dial-up and broadband services and other value-added services. The company’s reportable segments are Voice Solutions (VS), Data and Managed Services (DMS) and Real Estate (RE). It generates maximum revenue from Data and Managed Services (DMS) segment. | $20 | +9% | $6B | $7B | 2.6x | 13.0x | ||
| Sterlite Technologies Ltd is an Indian-based company engaged in the business of Connectivity and Network Solutions. Its products and solutions mainly include integrated optical fiber, copper telecom cables, structured data cables, access equipment, fiber connectivity and system integration solution offerings for telecom networks, OSS/ BSS solutions, billing and bandwidth management solutions for organizations, and others. Its segments include Optical networking business (ONB), Global service business (GSB) and Digital and technology solutions (Digital). The company offers its services within India and in the International market. It earns majority of the revenue from Optical networking business segment. | $6 | +443% | $3B | $3B | 6.4x | 47.6x | ||
| RailTel Corporation of India Ltd is a neutral telecom infrastructure provider in the country. It owns a pan-India optic fiber network on an exclusive Right of Way along the Railway track. The company's operating segment includes Telecom Services and Project Work services. It generates maximum revenue from the Telecom Services segment. The telecom services segment of the company provides services such as Managed Data Services; Leased Lines; Virtual Private Networks; Internet Leased Lines; Data Centre; Tower collocation, Rack and space, and NLD for voice carriage, and the project work services involve the following projects; National Optical Fiber Networks, Telecom and IT services related projects, and Enterprise specific IT & ITES Projects. | $3 | -29% | $1B | $919M | 2.5x | 15.6x | ||
| Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd provides basic and cellular telecommunication services. The company offers its product portfolio and services to wireline and wireless subscribers. The services provided by the company include Cloud and Saas, IoT Solutions, Cloud infrastructure, security Solutions, and others. It provides telecommunication services only in the Indian domestic market. | $0 | -37% | $884M | $3B | 23.8x | 21.2x | ||
| Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd is an India-based company that provides telecommunications services. The company's operating segment includes the Basic and Cellular segments. It generates maximum revenue from the Basic segment. The company offers various telecom services, including fixed telephone service, GSM (including 3G services), Internet, Broadband, ISDN, and Leased Line services. | $0 | -44% | $200M | $3B | 33.8x | 72.6x | ||
| Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd is an India-based Multi System Operator engaged in providing cable television (TV) network services, broadband services, and allied services. The product range of the company includes digital and analogue cable television, broadband, and local television channels. The products offered under the digital cable television services are HD Personal Video Recorder, Hathway SD, and Hathway HD. The company provides TV services in digital mode. In addition, it also offers features like video on demand, an electronic programming guide, and other features. The group has three reportable segments: Broadband Business, Cable Television Business, and Dealing in Securities. It generates the majority of the revenue from Cable television services. | $0 | -35% | $198M | ($45M) | (0.2x) | (1.0x) | ||
| Den Networks Ltd is a cable television company in India that distributes analog and digital cable television services. It provides visual entertainment to its customers through cable TV, over-the-top entertainment, telecommerce, and broadband services. The business segments of the company consist mainly of Cable and Broadband. Its Cable segment includes the distribution and promotion of television channels and the Broadband segment consists of providing internet services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from its cable segment. Geographically, it derives revenue from India. | $0 | -32% | $132M | ($219M) | (2.1x) | (6.9x) | ||
| GTPL Hathway Ltd is an Indian cable TV and Broadband service providers. The company has three reportable segments namely Cable Television, Internet service, and Projects. It generates maximum revenue from the Cable Television segment. Geographically it derives revenue from India. | $1 | -48% | $76M | $118M | 0.3x | 2.6x | ||
| Dish TV India Ltd provides direct-to-home and teleport services as part of the Indian media conglomerate Zee Group. DishTV generates the majority of its revenue by selling direct-to-home subscriptions, majority of which are prepaid. DishTV also sells advertising and leases and sells digital signal receiving equipment, such as set-top-boxes and dish antenna. Another source of revenue is from broadcasters paying bandwidth fees to keep content on a prime band. The company generates the vast majority of revenue in India. | $0 | -39% | $61M | $45M | 0.3x | 2.0x | ||
| OnMobile Global Ltd is an Indian company that provides mobile technology and services. The company's products include Ringback Tones, Digital Content Store, and Infotainment. Digital Content Store offers to discover digital content like videos, games, music, and images. Infotainment offers music, contest, news, and sports to consumers over the mobile. The geographic operational locations of the company are India, Latin America and United States of America, Europe, Africa, and Rest of the World. The company derives maximum revenue from telecom value-added services from Europe. | $1 | -9% | $57M | $50M | 0.9x | 14.3x | ||
| Reliance Communications Ltd is a triple-play telecommunications company that provides mobile, voice, and broadband services in two segments: India Operations and Global Operations. The India Operations segment includes business voice, long-distance services, and broadband access to enterprise customers, and managed Internet data centre services. The Global Operations segment offers international data and network services, enterprise services, and data services to global customers. The company generates the majority of its revenue from India Operations. | $0 | -- | $26M | $5B | 131.0x | (2468.9x) | ||
| Median | $0 | -29% | $542M | $3B | 4.2x | 11.7x |
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