Gigacore
24-08-2007, 08:12 PM
Country’s largest cellular operator, Bharti Airtel, will double its tower capacity to 80,000 by March 2008 as it grows its network to reach more towns and cities across the country, while expanding in the metros.
“Currently there are 40,000 towers. This year-end we would be doubling the capacity to 80,000 towers. This will be the single largest rollout by any company in one year and promises very good coverage for our subscribers in the next 18 months,” Sunil Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Enterprises told journalists on the sidelines of a CII seminar in New Delhi today.
Some of these towers could be capacity-filling towers. Most of them will come up in rural areas. In the past year, the company had set up 20,000 new towers. The cellular major, in which Singapore Telecom holds a 31 per cent stake, has already announced its decision to spend Rs 4,300 crore to expand transmission towers.
The spending on towers is part of a Rs 14,000-crore network expansion plan, to maintain its lead over Reliance and Vodafone Essar.
OLD news.. It was on 21st this month.
Source (http://www.business-standard.com/compindustry/storypage.php?leftnm=1&subLeft=1&chklogin=N&autono=295388&tab=r)
“Currently there are 40,000 towers. This year-end we would be doubling the capacity to 80,000 towers. This will be the single largest rollout by any company in one year and promises very good coverage for our subscribers in the next 18 months,” Sunil Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Enterprises told journalists on the sidelines of a CII seminar in New Delhi today.
Some of these towers could be capacity-filling towers. Most of them will come up in rural areas. In the past year, the company had set up 20,000 new towers. The cellular major, in which Singapore Telecom holds a 31 per cent stake, has already announced its decision to spend Rs 4,300 crore to expand transmission towers.
The spending on towers is part of a Rs 14,000-crore network expansion plan, to maintain its lead over Reliance and Vodafone Essar.
OLD news.. It was on 21st this month.
Source (http://www.business-standard.com/compindustry/storypage.php?leftnm=1&subLeft=1&chklogin=N&autono=295388&tab=r)