Anil Ambani seeks to sell control of Reliance Communications
Live MintReliance Communications Ltd., the telecommunications company that’s offloading most of its assets to a rival, is in talks to sell a controlling stake in what will remain after it exits India’s consumer wireless business. The company helmed by billionaire Anil Ambani is negotiating with two investors who are conducting due diligence, Bill Barney, chief executive officer of the company and its undersea cable unit Global Cloud Xchange Ltd., said Wednesday. The undersea telecommunications cable system, data centers and business-to-business connectivity services will remain after the sale of airwaves, towers, underground fiber and transmission nodes to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., the wireless carrier controlled by Anil’s elder brother Mukesh Ambani. The company was also said to be in talks to sell GCX to China’s Citic Telecom International Holdings Ltd. for $500 million in 2014, though the deal eventually stalled after Citic got a new chief executive.