Tata Teleservices Signs Infrastructure Sharing Deal with BSNL

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

India's Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has signed a passive infrastructure sharing contract with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for its tower network.

The agreement - which is valid for 15 years - will be applicable to both Tata Teleservices Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited in all of India's 22 telecom Circles.

"This is a moment of pride for us, as we have become the first private telecom operator to enter into such a strategically important agreement with BSNL, one that will allow us to expand our telecom footprint across the country much more quickly," Mr Madhav Joshi, President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Tata Teleservices Limited, said.

The agreement comes at a strategic time for TTSL has it has been aggressively expanding the network presence on the CDMA side with Tata Indicom, while also rolling out GSM services under the TATA DOCOMO brand name.

"In the short space of just three months, we have already rolled out our GSM services in nine Circles - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh and Haryana," Mr AG Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited, said. "This agreement has the potential to not just speed up our network expansion and rollout process, but would also have a substantial impact in terms of reduced costs," he added.

Under the terms of the agreement, TTSL and TTML will have access to thousands of BSNL towers all across the country.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

 

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