PTCL submits non-binding offer to acquire Warid
The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) announces that the company has submitted a non-binding offer to acquire Warid Telecom. According to a notice sent to the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) by PTCL, the company has submitted a non-binding offer to acquire Warid Telecom shares while the validity period of the offer is 30 days. It has been noticed that the local officials in Pakistan have not been informed about the matter by higher authorities of Etisalat, which is a parent company of PTCL. It is worth mentioning here that a non-binding offer is an offer that isn’t binding. The ‘buyer’ is not required to put down any deposit or earnest money and neither the buyer nor the owner is committed. Moreover, the Warid Telecom is expecting more than $1.0 billion offer from aspirants for its all assets and installations in Pakistan. The China Mobile, which is a parent company of Zong, has also dived in the bidding process of the Warid aiming to elevate its subscribers base because the company has the only option to get sufficient subscribers in the current complex SIMs’ sale mechanism in the country. The industry experts said that the bidding of Warid in such a time when 3G auction is expected to take place within the next few weeks as per Supreme Court of Pakistan’s directions will likely affect the investment ability of the companies who have been participating in a bidding of Warid as they might not be in a position to invest heavily in 3G auction.
