TIL Desk/Business/Mumbai/ The much-awaited merger of telecom giants Vodafone and Idea Cellular is likely to be announced in the next few weeks, but the technology integration may take at least four years as a large amount of data and network integration are required in the background.
Technology analysts tracking the two companies noted the size and complexity of data migration involved in the merger would take two to four years to complete and stabilise. While most of the transformation is likely to be in phases, analysts say the merged entity might be racing against time as it struggles to compete against rivals.
“Merger of Vodafone and Idea is a large and complex case. Besides the complexities that are inherently present in rationalising people, processes and technologies (overlaps across IT, network and supply-chain; data migration challenges etc), the need to transform technology and operations structurally is further daunting,” said Amresh Nandan, research vice president at Gartner.
