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India : DEAL to Lease 4000 Mobile Towers from BSNL to Ready for 4G inked by Reliance Jio Infocomm [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) considering its impending 4G nationwide launch in 2015 has recently signed a deal with state-owned telecom major BSNL to lease about 4,000 mobile towers. As per to this deal, rentals are being fixed at a base rate of ?38,000 per month for ground-based towers (GBT) and ? 24,900 per month for rooftop-based towers (RBT) with some discounts upon minimum number of commitments. RJIL owns a unified pan-India broadband wireless access spectrum for all 22 service areas in India for 4G services. Besides, the company has radiowaves in the 1800 Mhz band or the 2G spectrum, which are used for 4G services worldwide. RJIL said it has also struck infrastructure-sharing deals with Reliance Communications, American Tower Corporation, Tower Vision India, Ascend Telecom, Viom Networks and Bharti Infratel. Additionally, RJIL has inked a collaborative partnership with Bharti Airtel that allows both companies to share the capacity of a submarine cable. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |