Bharti Airtel-Tata Tele merger: This is what Bharti Airtel gains

The merged entity will be able to narrow the gap with the proposed Idea-Vodafone combine not only in the share of spectrum controlled but revenue

After its acquisition of Tate Teleservices’ consumer mobile business, Bharti Airtel would be able to bridge, to a large extent, the gap between the share of total spectrum held by it and that owned by the merged entity formed after rivals Idea Cellular’s merger with Vodafone India.
 
Bharti and Tata Tele will together control over 28 per cent of the total spectrum available to telecom service providers, and that will bring them on a par with the Idea-Vodafone’s share across the country.
 
Also, the Bharti Airtel-Tata Tele combined entity would control around 40 per cent of the total