Aircel and Datacom Solutions today announced that they have entered into a tower sharing agreement, under which Datacom will share a minimum of 5,000 towers across Aircel’s footprint, over a span of 16 months. The deal is valued at approximately USD 400 million.
By leveraging Aircel’s tower infrastructure Datacom, a new entrant in the Indian telecom sector, will be able to reduce cost and gain time to market.
Aircel, the fastest growing operator, which currently owns approximately 15,000 towers across the country, will in turn create value by increasing tenancy and reducing cost across its towers.
Mr. V.N. Dhoot, CMD Videocon Group, quoted “This is a landmark deal and a unique opportunity for Datacom for faster Pan-India rollout. It shows our commitment to the Indian telecom sector. Access to Aircel’s towers will help meet our aggressive rollout targets. We are also rolling out our own towers and for those towers, we would like to have other operators as tenants.”
Mr Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel, added, “Datacom’s decision to partner with Aircel clearly demonstrates the desirability and attractiveness of Aircel’s network of towers in strategic, high revenue potential locations. We are very happy to share our passive infrastructure with Datacom.”
raj kamal singh April 21, 2010 at 11:38 am
yaha per aircel ka network bad hai.(sherwan mirzapur)
Arjun.C April 13, 2010 at 8:49 pm
@Pavan
Almost all Aircel Karnataka Network Is not bad at all. It will builds it’s own tower within 5 years be patience
Pavan November 21, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Aircel network is even bad Karnataka. However it’s adjustable. Their plans and offers are superb. Waiting for Aircel to improve in Karnataka.
kaushik September 29, 2009 at 5:52 pm
AIRCEL NETWORK IS GOOD IN TAMIL NADU,MUMBAI,KOLKATA,ASSAM,NORTH EAST CIRLES
VERY BAD IN REST OF BENGAL,BIHAR,ORISSA CIRCLE
Pranab Ghosh September 29, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Aircel and Datacom should intimate regarding their recruitement as lots of frastu people are looking forward for new openings.
Suchisuvra Sen September 26, 2009 at 9:43 am
It’s a good decision from Datacom……..
zareef September 21, 2009 at 6:13 pm
yup Aircel have very bad network hence its new oprator… the instaling few lakh new towers all over… but it take still few month to provide goog network.. but Aircel having cheapst call rate
altaf September 18, 2009 at 11:09 pm
In mumbai datacom will be hit if it shares aircel infrastructure
Avishek September 17, 2009 at 5:19 pm
AIRCEL has third class network & lack of towers in Rest Of Bengal Circle…& if Datacom shares Aircel towers in ROB also …then this new Telco does not gain good no.of customers here…..