Reliance Communications (RCOM) has informed BSE (pdf) that its company board has decided in-principle to demerge its real estate business into a separate company called Reliance Properties Ltd. The company informed this proposed demerger is part of the company's strategic plan to divest non-core assets, and focus on its core wireless and enterprise business. It also noted that this demerger will have no impact on RCOM's profitability since real estate was not being used in its telecom business. The new entity will be listed separately and all RCOM shareholders will receive pro-rate shareholding in Reliance Properties free of cost, based on their existing shareholding in RCOM. Over the past few months, RCOM has inked quite a few deals to reduce its debts and is reportedly in the process of signing few more deals for the same. - In March 2013, RCOM had confirmed that it was in talks with Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) to offload its global communications services business unit Reliance Globalcom. However, in April 2013, RCOM had informed that it was no longer in talks with Batelco for this acquisition and was in advanced talks with Samena Capital, as a part of a consortium with global PE funds. The deal was expected to close by the end of May 2013, however there is no further updates on this deal yet. - In April 2013, it inked a Rs 1,200 crore deal with Reliance Jio Infocomm to share its nationwide inter-city fibre optic network infrastructure and also get access to the optic fiber infrastructure being built by RIL. - In June 2013, it inked…
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