Telecom firms agree to share infrastructure

Posted: Wednesday, Jul 05, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Jul 05, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST

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New Delhi, July 4: Mobile phone operators have agreed to share seven transmission towers in Delhi and two in Mumbai as part of project MOST (mobile operators shared towers initiative), which will bring down costs of setting up new towers by 50%, de-clutter the city’s skyline and reduce call drops.

Communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran will announce this on Wednesday.

Delhi alone has nearly 6,000 cell towers, each costing nearly Rs 30 lakh. Rapid growth in subscriber base requires expansion of telecom infrastructure, particularly towers, which are being replicated by nearly every operator. Sharing of towers will bring down infrastructure costs for all operators.

This will be the first time that GSM and CDMA operators will share the towers. In Delhi, seven towers will be shared by six service providers—Bharti Airtel, Hutch Essar, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.

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