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沃达丰Idea银行要求现有贷款提供额外抵押品
一位不愿透露姓名的银行官员表示:“贷款机构对该电信公司最近的评级下调感到担忧，正寻求修改贷款契约，提高利率，增加保证金和现有设施的担保。”
孟买:沃达丰的想法美国的贷款机构要求这家资金紧张的电信公司在提高贷款利率的同时，为现有设施提供额外的抵押品和担保。银行还在考虑电信公司向电信部门提供额外银行担保的需求。
一位不愿透露姓名的银行官员表示:“贷款机构对该电信公司最近的评级下调感到担忧，正寻求修改贷款契约，提高利率，增加保证金和现有设施的担保。”
印度第三大电信公司最近通知最高法院它从银行、非银行金融公司和共同基金那里获得了约4700亿卢比的“未动用资金”，超过了对电信部的欠款。其中包括从公共部门银行获得的2500亿卢比。
另一位银行官员表示，这家陷入困境的电信公司还在与贷款机构谈判，以提供额外的银行担保，价值98亿卢比，这样它就可以利用频谱支付的暂停。
Vi曾在6月写信给该部门，寻求延长暂停，ET报道政府正在制定一项救济计划，其中可能包括暂停付款。
一位政府官员表示:“如果Vi想申请暂停，它将需要英国央行，这就是它们与银行谈判的原因。”
然而，贷款机构尚未对此表示认可。事实上，在最近与交通部官员的一次会议上，贷款机构表示，将电信公司的债务转换为股权是他们的一个选择。不过，该公司目前还没有拖欠任何款项。
直到周三发稿前，Vi及其贷款人都没有回应ET的询问。
对于有电信业务敞口的银行而言，维讯如果得不到拯救，将成为继维讯之后第三家破产的运营商信实电信Aircel。
印度国家银行例如，该公司对电信公司的敞口约为1.1亿卢比。
沃达丰Idea一季度净亏损扩大至7312.9亿卢比;ARPU降至104卢比
Vi表示，该集团的债务总额为191,588.8亿卢比，其中下一期AGR负债约为900亿卢比，债务总额为16,853.4亿卢比，将在未来12个月内偿还。
“上述持续经营的假设基本上取决于其筹集额外资金的能力……与贷款人成功谈判以获得持续支持/额外资金，某些资产货币化，(在最高法院)提交的审查请愿书的结果……以及下一笔分期付款金额的清晰度，交通部接受延期请求，以及从其运营中产生现金流，以解决/更新到期的债务/担保。”Vi上周六表示，此前该公司报告第一财季亏损7312.9亿卢比。
该电信公司的评级下调是另一个令人担忧的问题。CARE评级公司最近将该公司降级至b -，并将其列入负面影响的信用观察名单。
Vi已经指出了其生存能力问题，这在很大程度上取决于该电信公司如何成功筹集到2500亿卢比，政府的救济计划以及SC对AGR计算问题的救济。
Motilal Oswal发布的一份报告称:“筹集资金或政府救助计划对于提供即时流动性支持，以偿还不断膨胀的1.9万亿卢比净债务仍然至关重要。”
本月早些时候，当库马尔•曼加拉姆•伯拉(Kumar Mangalam Birla)辞去该公司董事会职务时，这家电信公司的生存问题凸显出来。该公司是他的Aditya Birla Group与英国沃达丰集团(Vodafone Group)组建的合资企业。不到两个月前，他写信给政府，提出将该集团在Vi的股份移交给任何能够让该公司维持下去的公共部门或国内金融实体。
分析人士称，没有资金，沃达丰Idea正面临缓慢死亡
上周六，由于利息成本上升和客户损失严重，现金短缺的Vi公司6月份季度亏损从前三个月的698.51亿卢比扩大至7312.9亿卢比。
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<\/figure>Mumbai: Vodafone Idea<\/a>'s lenders have asked the cash-strapped telco to provide additional collateral and security on existing facilities along with higher interest rates on loans. The banks are also mulling over the telco's need for additional bank guarantees to furnish to the telecom department.
\u201cLenders are worried over the recent ratings downgrade of the telco and are seeking changes in loan covenants with higher interest rates and top up on margin money and security against existing facilities,\u201d said a bank official who did not want to be named.
India's third largest telco recently informed the Supreme Court<\/a> that it has \u201coutstanding utilised facilities\u201d of about Rs 47,000 crore from banks, non-banking finance companies and mutual funds, over and above its arrears to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). These included Rs 25,000 crore taken from public sector banks.
<\/div><\/div>The petition was against the top court\u2019s order that did not heed the company\u2019s request for asking DoT to look into \u201cerrors\" in the calculation of its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues.
The troubled telco is also in talks with lenders to provide additional bank guarantees (BGs) worth Rs 980 crore so that it can avail of moratorium on spectrum payments, said another bank official.
Vi had written to the department in June seeking an extended moratorium and ET has reported that the government was working on a relief package which would likely include a moratorium on payment.
\"Vi will need BGs if it wants to apply for the moratorium and that is why they are talking to banks,\" said a government official.
However, lenders have yet to give their nod. In fact, in a recent meeting with DoT officials, lenders said converting debt to equity in the telco was an option for them. However, the carrier hasn\u2019t defaulted on any payments as yet.
Vi and its lenders did not respond to ET's queries till press time Wednesday.
For banks exposed to the telecom sector, Vi, if not saved, will become the third operator to go under after Reliance Communications<\/a> and Aircel.
State Bank of India<\/a>, for instance, has an exposure of about Rs 11,000 crore to the telco.
The troubled telco is also in talks with lenders to provide additional bank guarantees (BGs) worth Rs 980 crore so that it can avail of moratorium on spectrum payments, said another bank official.
Vi had written to the department in June seeking an extended moratorium and ET has reported that the government was working on a relief package which would likely include a moratorium on payment.
\"Vi will need BGs if it wants to apply for the moratorium and that is why they are talking to banks,\" said a government official.
However, lenders have yet to give their nod. In fact, in a recent meeting with DoT officials, lenders said converting debt to equity in the telco was an option for them. However, the carrier hasn\u2019t defaulted on any payments as yet.
Vi and its lenders did not respond to ET's queries till press time Wednesday.
For banks exposed to the telecom sector, Vi, if not saved, will become the third operator to go under after Reliance Communications<\/a> and Aircel.
State Bank of India<\/a>, for instance, has an exposure of about Rs 11,000 crore to the telco.
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