India’s Aircel and state-owned BSNL have signed a 10-year passive infrastructure sharing agreement. As a result, Aircel, which has around 32,000 base stations, will now have access to BSNL’s approximately 45,000 towers across all its licensed circles.
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. But we do have a comment from Aircel’s COO Gurdeep Singh, who said: “Aircel will now have access to strategically located sites across BSNL’s 21 circles (excluding Mumbai and Delhi). Leveraging BSNL’s passive infrastructure will help Aircel meet its aggressive network roll out plans in addition to reducing operational cost.”
[Via: CellularNews]