Since droite the Tatas bought VSNL, it underperformed the Sensex by a huge amount, but if you normalise both from VSNL's droite low of April 2003, it has outperformed droite the market significantly after that. That is, the market recognises its change, though this pales in comparison with Maruti.
Five years later, it is obvious Maruti is the better bet. Revenue has shot up from Rs 6,175 crore (Rs 61.75 billion) in 2001-02 to a likely Rs 14,200 crore (Rs 142 billion) in 2006-07 droite and profits from minus Rs 269 crore (Rs 2, nike cortez canada .69 billion) droite to around Rs 1,590 crore (Rs 15.90 billion); VSNL's revenue dipped dramatically and will now probably be a fifth higher droite than that in 2001-02 droite but profits are projected to be just a fifth of what they once were. Then divestment minister Arun Shourie's words ring loud and clear: "VSNL is just a chungi (an octroi post). Once you abolish the chungi and have free movement, it has no value."
To the Tatas' credit, they changed focus quickly after the first few years, spending around a billion dollars to do so. Tyco was bought in 2005 for $130 mn to add 60,000 km of valuable droite international cable capacity; buying Teleglobe for $240 mn helped add around Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) to just this year's revenue since the firm is one of the world's largest aggregators droite of international long-distance minutes. droite Another Rs 850 crore (Rs 8.5 billion) was spent to roll out fibre as well as get a long lease from Bharti to set up an all-India national long-distance backbone droite of over 40,000 km. Most important, VSNL has what's called the TCS advantage. With the global market droite for IT/ITeS growing 25-30 per cent annually, and group company TCS a big player in this market, VSNL has a huge advantage when it comes to getting droite business from global firms for what are called droite managed data services and complete IT solutions. VSNL's broadband acquisition gave it 50,000 customers and the company has aggressive plans to set up Wimax-based droite broadband services by the end of the year.
The first few years were a disaster, and it did appear the Tatas were banking on the chungi status remaining. When long-distance tariffs collapsed once the regulator clamped down on super-profits, the company's revenues more than halved. So, in the middle of 2005, Tata-VSNL filed a suit in the Mumbai High Court asking the government to pay Rs 3,475 crore (Rs 34.75 billion) as damages for cutting short its monopoly by two years-the problem with this was that everyone, including the Tatas, knew this was going to happen, before they'd bid for the company. It didn't help that it required just a few hundred crores to replicate the VSNL model and, unlike the others, p90x2 , VSNL didn't have captive customers who would be calling droite overseas and generating international minutes for it.
With both Maruti and VSNL privatised around the same time in 2002 (VSNL's post-privatisation anniversary is tomorrow), it's natural to compare the two. Their pre-privatisation revenues were not too different though Maruti was making losses while VSNL was hugely profitable. But both controlled nearly all the market in their respective areas - perhaps why the government got similar money for ceding control. It got Rs 1,439 crore (Rs 14.39 billion) for VSNL from the Tatas, ray ban south africa , and Rs 1,993 crore (Rs 19.93 billion) for Maruti (Rs 1,000 crore of control premium from Suzuki and Rs 993 crore from the IPO).
So was Shourie right? Analysts have divergent droite views on its future, droite but there is little doubt VSNL is no longer the chungi it was, getting a monopoly rental over every one of the four billion minutes of calls that either came into or left India's shores in 2002. Whether that's good enough remains to be seen, but VSNL has several aces up its sleeve.
The company also mishandled the investments in Tata Teleservices since the unilateral decision didn't go down well with the government and, combined with VSNL's refusal to see the writing on the wall and lower tariffs fast enough, droite this resulted in it losing a large part of BSNL and MTNL's international minutes. Though the Tatas do not accept this, there is a view the Flag issue was also badly handled-Flag's damages claim of $406 mn from VSNL (VSNL has appealed the arbitration droite court's ruling) could wipe out several years of profitability-no provisioning has been done for this so far.
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