Details of Vodafone, Idea merger this week

Merger was necessitated by launch of Reliance Jio Infocomm

After eight months of hectic parleys, Britain's Vodafone Group's Indian subsidiary and Aditya Birla Group's Idea Cellular have taken a step closer to a mega merger that would create a new market leader better able to contest a brutal price war with 42 per cent market share.
 
Both the companies would hold equal stake in the merged entity and an announcement would be made as early as this week, a source said.
 
Vodafone, the world's second-largest cellphone networks operator, has agreed to Birla's demand that Kumar Mangalam Birla would become the chairman of the merged entity. The equity