COMMUNICATIONS
Essar Telecom Infrastructure is one of the largest independent telecom infrastructure service provisioning companies in the country. .. Vodafone-Essar is a joint venture of Essar Communication Holdings Ltd and the UK-based Vodafone Group. It is one of India’s largest cellular service companies. We have over 100 million telecom subscribers in India and Kenya. We have majority stake in the telecom assets of the Dhabi Group in Uganda and the Republic of Congo. We operate integrated IT enabled services through the Aegis brand name, with a presence in interaction services, back office services and value-added services. Aegis operates in 40 locations and employs over 40,000 employees in India and the US, with expertise in the telecom, insurance, banking and healthcare domains. We have launched India's first countrywide chain of multi-brand and multiservice outlets in the telecom retail space. The MobileStore Ltd currently runs 1,300 outlets, branded “The MobileStore”. In the next two years, over 2,500 outlets will come up across 650 cities. Essar Telecom Infrastructure is one of the largest independent telecom infrastructure service provisioning companies in the country. It builds telecom tower infrastructure and shares it with several telecom operators in India. It has a pan-India presence in telecom tower infrastructure with more than 4,500 telecom towers operational. Essar has a 14 per cent stake in Indus Towers, India’s largest tower company, which has over 100,000 towers. Essar Communications Holdings Limited acquired a 49 per cent stake in Econet Wireless International Limited by subscribing to fresh capital in the company. EWI has a 70 per cent shareholding in Econet Wireless Kenya. Essar and Econet Wireless Kenya have launched 'yu' — Kenya’s third mobile cellular network. This is a GSM-based mobile services network in Kenya with close to a million subscribers.