3 success secrets of Indian telecom unveiled!

12:00 AM, Oct 07, 2009

No body will be able to predict Indian telecom’s future but many can tell you what worked for the sector so far. Because what happened is history. History has lots of data. And data put together properly will show very important trends. With the data we have so far Economist dissected the secrets behind successful telecom companies in the world.   Though there are multiple things which worked in favor of Indian telecom there are 3 ...

Aircel and Tata Tele to offload stake in their tower business

12:00 AM, Aug 08, 2009

Offloading stakes, sharing infrastructure and floating a different tower company has been a trend for a while now. Almost all the telecom companies have done this. Aircel and Tata Teleservices Maharastra Ltd (TTML) are now planning to do so.   Suggested reading : 13 Telecom Tower companies in India. Aircel has a 12000 towers and is in talks with other tower companies to offload stake in the tower business. It has short-listed 4 towe...

Aircel to sell its 12000 towers to Tata-Quippo and raise cash for 3G

12:00 AM, Jun 24, 2009

All roads lead to 3G. Only thing is telcos are short of cash. And they are doing everything they can to raise cash. Now, Aircel is believed to be in talks with Tata-Quippo to sell its 12,000 towers. Each tower is valued at 60 lakhs. Reliance is believed to be giving 5-6% stake to China Mobile to raise cash just in time  for 3G auction. Aircel is the next in line which is looking to raise cash for 3G. And with this tower sale which is estimate...

13 Telecom tower companies in India

12:00 AM, May 04, 2009

already. Indus Towers a joint venture of Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and IDEA is formed. Indus Towers = Ortus Infratel Holding (Vodafone - 42%) + Bhart Airtel (42%) + IDEA (16%) American Tower Corp has acquired Xcel Telecom towers for 700 crores. Quippo Telecom has acquired Spice Telecom’s tower business and Tata Teleservices WITIL is merged into it. BSNL has planned to lease its towers for better revenues. Because of the intense competition ea...

10 risks for Indian telecom sector in 2009 - E&Y report

12:00 AM, Mar 28, 2009

Indian telecom industry is still in growth phase and slowly maturing. US saw major consolidation in the telecom sector in the last 2 decades. The market there is mostly saturated now. Not the same case with India. It still is exciting with a lot of things like 3G and WiMax coming up. At the same time the expansion is fraught with risks. Ernst & Young has put together an excellent report and summary of risks for global telecom sector in 200...

Telecom tower business is heating up. BSNL set to lease its towers

12:00 AM, Mar 24, 2009

The telecom tower business is really heating up. Just 2 days ago, Vodafone had spun off its tower business as a separate unit. Airtel, IDEA and Vodafone already share the infrastructure via a Indus Towers a jointly owned company. Reliance has its on own tower business. But, none of this infrastructure is enough to expand in a way any telecom provider wants to. There are rural areas which are not covered by any of the service providers except B...

Vodafone hives off Telecom Infrastructure business to Ortus Infratel

12:00 AM, Mar 23, 2009

afone, IDEA and Airtel has come together to form joint venture forming Indus Towers. Indus Towers = Ortus Infratel Holdings (42%) + Bharti Airtel (42%) + IDEA (16%) (source)    This new telecom infrastructure business of Vodafone Essar is called Ortus Infratel. It will be the holding company in Indus Towers instead of Vodafone. Vodafone itself is a joint venture between Ruia’s Essar Group (33%) and Vodafone (67%).  The same shareholder p...