Mergers and Acquisitions: The telecommunications industry is now becoming very attractive in terms of mergers and acquisitions. The telecommunications industry is the fastest growing industry in the world today. In this industry, it involves several types of communication media such as landline phones, mobile phones, Internet and broadband services. Through mergers and acquisitions, domestic telecommunications have reduced expenses and gained greater market share. Many telecommunications service providers are considering mergers and acquisitions to expand globally. In the telecommunications sector, the growth of mergers and acquisitions is driven by private sector investments and FDI. The main reasons for the rapid growth of the telecommunications sector through mergers and acquisitions are: firstly, deregulation, second is landline wireless telephone services and lastly. one is innovative products like Internet, broadband and cable services. In India, mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications sector increased from the mid-1990s. In developed countries like the United States, mergers and acquisitions in this sector are taking place in their own right. mergers and acquisitions in the telecom sector fully controlled and supervised by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India). TRI always keeps an eye on the telecommunications industry so that no monopolies form. Here are the mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the telecom sector: All Tata TV Services under Tata DOCOMO: Under Tata DOCOMO, all services of telecom provider Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), including Tata indicom, Tata walky and Tata photon, are provided. The company will provide CDMA and GSM platforms. Through this merger, all Tata indicom customers have migrated to Tata DOCOMO. Migration...... middle of paper ......Import intensity: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Bharti 28.53 20.85 23.08 25.55 15.78 9.72 9.96 dependency 23.59 7.26 45.63 76.00 6.1 5 1.69 0.00Vodafone 22.03 30.23 40.75 26.57 23.20 13.22 15.33 Idea 16.23 16.92 21.75 24.32 19.99 17.72 11.07Bsnl 1.75 2.95 1.63 1.26 4.14 4.64 1.70 Import intensity (%) = Total foreign exchange expenditure / Net sales . year 2006, later in 2007 and 2008 it increases and then decreases again in 2009. In case of BSNL we can see that import intensity was negligible till 2008 and thereafter it increases but in a lesser extent compared to other service providers. Note: The import and export intensity of BSNL shows that its operations are mainly internal to the country. BSNL no longer imports or exports.