Unless you participate in auctions and get your bid confirmed, you would not be entitled to licence, which is a requisite, DoT said.

With only the formalities to be completed for Vodafone to acquire a controlling stake in Hutch-Essar (HEL), India will soon become its thir...

With Hutch, India is Vodafone's third largest market with 24.4 million subscribers after Germany and US.

The UK telecom major's key investor Standard Life has given a go-ahead for the proposed bid.