Due-diligence may have been on for some time
now on the merger of Reliance Digital and Sun
Direct, but a concrete decision is yet to be taken
on the deal, according to reliable sources.
Senior executives at Reliance say they do not
want to comment on speculation and Sun TV
Network officials could not be reached for
comment. But industry sources say it may take a
while to decide this issue, as it calls for a lot of
understanding between the two entities.
The two companies have been sharing their
back-end facilities for a couple of years now.
After a technical glitch in INSAT 4B in 2010, Sun
Direct entered into a long-term agreement with
Reliance Digital to share the latter’s bandwidth
in MEASAT 3. “Beyond this, we do not know
anything between the two companies,” said an
executive at Reliance Digital. The executive says
there is no official information on this from the
top – not even a word on employees’ status.
“We do not know whether we would be offered a
choice to move to the new entity or to remain
with Reliance,” the person said.
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