Reliance Infratel, against which also the contempt petition has been filed, is part of RCom.
Reliance Infratel had withdrew its petition from NCLAT, seeking permission to sell its tower and fibre assets.
Following the development, the Anil Ambani led firm today withdrew its petition from the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) seeking permission to sell its tower and fibre assets.
Counsel appearing in the matter sought the adjournment following which a NCLAT bench headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya directed it to list on May 2.
"The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the proposed transaction involving the sale of the tower division of Reliance Infratel Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance Communications Ltd., which is to be carried out pursuant to a demerger of the tower division to Towercom Infrastructure Private Limited (Towerco)," Reliance Communications said in a statement.
Reliance Communications shares gained 3.6 percent intraday Friday after signing term sheet with Canada-based asset management company for tower business.
"RCom and Maxis Communications Berhad (MCB) and Sindya Securities and Investments Private Limited, the shareholders of Aircel, expect to sign binding definitive documentation and announce the proposed transaction for the combination of the Indian wireless business of RCOM and Aircel very shortly," the telecom company said in its filing.
"Fitch Ratings has affirmed India-based telecoms service provider Rcom long-term foreign and local-currency issuer default ratings (IDR) of 'BB-'. The outlook is stable," Fitch said in a statement
CNBC-TV18's Reema Tendulkar gives a detailed analysis of the expected divestment.
According to sources, RCom will sell 96 percent of it stake and minority investors will sell 4 percent stake.
RComm owns about 96 percent stake in Infratel and the sale would fetch it around Rs 22,000 crore, which will be used to retire some debt.
Reliance Communications (RCom) is close to finalising a deal to sell its entire stake in tower unit Reliance Infratel, sources aware of the development said. R Com owns about 96 percent stake in Infratel and the sale would fetch it around Rs 22,000 crore, which will be used to retire some debt.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company said the formal process for sale of a controlling 51 percent stake in Reliance Infratel was launched a few weeks back, and got a very positive response.
The company had a net debt of Rs 38,595.7 crore at the end of June 30, 2015. Sources had said RCom was in talks with American Tower Company (ATC) and Carlyle and others for selling a majority stake in Reliance Infratel.
Telecom operator Reliance Communications is in talks with American Tower Company (ATC) and Carlyle to sell majority stake in its tower subsidiary Reliance Infratel in the current financial year.
While GTL Infra in their official response told CNBC-TV18 that they have no service tax liability, within the next few days some other telecom, infra companies like Reliance Infratel and Quippo-WTTIL may get similar notices.
According to Mayuresh Joshi, VP Institution at Angel Broking, Reliance Communications can be accumulated on declines with a long term perspective.
Telecom operator Reliance Communications surged 16 percent in late trade on Monday, to touch a new 52-week high of Rs 100.05 on news that the company is in talks with PE consortium to sell Reliance Globalcom.
Shares in Reliance Communications gained on Friday after The Economic Times newspaper reported the company was in talks to sell a stake in its mobile tower unit to Reliance Industries.
Reliance Communications shares rose as much as 3.2 percent after The Economic Times reported the company was in preliminary talks with Reliance Industries for a mobile network sharing deal.
Shares in Reliance Communications Ltd gained 7.1 percent, to their highest level since April 18, 2012, after CLSA said several catalysts could help the company to unlock value, including an "inevitable" tower/infrastructure-sharing deal with Reliance Industries for its 4G rollout.
SP Tulsian of sptulsian.com, says that he is over all quite positive on media space. Dish TV can move up to Rs 80-85 especially because the kind of digitalization moves which is now likely to gather momentum and the stock will benefit. Apart form this he am positive on Hathway, DEN Network, Zee Entertainment and Sun TV.
Bharti Airtel today said it has appointed a Committee of the Board of Directors to consider a public offer of its telecom tower unit Bharti Infratel Ltd (BIL) by selling up to 10% stake.
Neeraj Monga of Veritas Investment Research believes various mergers and amalgamations have led to the Rs 22,000 crore 'inflated book equity' of Reliance Communications.
Canada-based equity research firm Veritas has assigned a value of Rs 15 to the stock of Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications, citing high debt, "whimsical" accounting policies and poor corporate governance standards as the key reasons.