Idea Cellular zooms on emerging as biggest beneficiary of MNP

02 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Idea Cellular is currently trading at Rs. 94.40, up by 2.10 points or 2.28% from its previous closing of Rs. 92.30 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 93.90 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 95.05 and Rs. 92.00 respectively. So far 404919 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 103.65 on 06-Sep-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 55.65 on 28-Feb-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 99.80 and Rs. 90.15 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 30520.94 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 46.00% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 20.54% and 33.46% respectively.

Idea Cellular, India's fourth-biggest cellular carrier has garnered maximum number of subscribers from other companies via the mobile number portability (MNP) route. The telecom service provider has reported a net gain of 15.72 lakh users as on November 15, 2011. Other two major telecom operators, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel followed Idea Cellular with net gains of 12.06 lakh and 2.95 lakh customers, respectively.

Recently, the company has ventured into the mobile handset space with the launch of two 3G smartphones.At a price starting at Rs 5,850, the company has claimed its phones to be the cheapest 3G smartphones available in the country.Targeted at Idea customers in urban and semi-urban parts, the company is providing a data-bundling offer for 3G customers who buy the smartphone.

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