- CEO
- Abhijit Kishore
- Full Time Employees
- 17,612
- Sector
- Communications
- Industry
- Wireless telecommunications
- Address
- Birla Centurion Mumbai MA India 400030
- IPO Date
- Mar 12, 2007
- Business
- Vodafone Idea Limited (IDEA.NS) operates as India's third-largest telecommunications provider, offering integrated mobile voice and data services across 2G, 3G, 4G, and emerging 5G platforms nationwide. The company delivers pan-India prepaid and postpaid plans including unlimited propositions, RED postpaid packs, GIGAnet network bundles, truly unlimited international roaming, broadband services, content and digital entertainment via Vi Movies & TV, enterprise mobility solutions, IoT platforms, business communication tools, cloud services, business analytics, and value-added services such as VoLTE. Headquartered in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and formed in 2018 through the merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular as a joint venture between Vodafone Group and Aditya Birla Group, it serves over 127 million subscribers with extensive urban and rural coverage across all 22 telecom circles. In recent developments, the Government of India elevated its stake to 48.99% in March 2025 by converting Rs 36,950 crore of spectrum dues into equity; the company launched 5G services in Mumbai during the same month, expanded 4G capacity by over 38% with 17% speed improvements by September 2025, pursued Rs 50,000-55,000 crore funding for 4G densification and fiber rollout, reduced debt issuance size targeting December 2025 completion via bonds backed by the parent, and extended its partnership with Kyndryl for IT services in November 2025.