The Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) also wants industrial electricity tariffs for telecommunication infrastructure across states
Idea Cellular has put on block 100 percent stake in its tower arm, dropping its earlier plans to sell a minority stake in the business, people close to the telecom operator told CNBC-TV18. They say the company is looking to sell 11,000 telecom towers for close to USD 1 billion.
KEC International will sell its telecom towers in three cities to ATC Telecom.
Code-named Project Loon, Google‘s internet project envisages use of high-altitude balloons to provide affordable internet to around five billion people globally who currently have no access.
The expansion has resulted in coverage of over 380 towns and 43,500 villages in the region which has a massive subscriber base of 61 million mobile phone users, BL Venkateshwar, CEO of Indus Towers (Maharashtra and Goa Circle), told reporters here.
The company, which has a portfolio of over 30,000 telecom towers across the country, had reported a loss of Rs 85.16 crore for the same period last year.
At an age when most people are still wondering about what to do with their lives, college graduates Abhishek Humbad and Richa Bajpai were out to show the world that being eco-friendly can also mean good business.
Telecom operators have proposed installing 29,700 telecom towers for 3G services in the next two years, Parliament was informed today.
If there‘s one factor that can arrest the nose-diving profitability of telecom operators, it‘s the cost of powering the base transceiver stations, or cellular towers as they are called.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Hemant Kanoria, CMD of SREI Infrastructure Finance said, "The difference to SREI would be that, as per earlier guidelines, we were not able to get our infrastructure finance company classification. Now, the telecom tower is also included as infrastructure asset, so we would qualify."