While tower industry itself represents a type of outsourcing (where telcos outsource the management of passive infrastructure assets to specialist towercos), we believe a second wave of outsourcing is under way within the tower industry. In an industry conference focused on the Telecom Infrastructure space, we observed that an interestingContinue Reading
The recent Spectrum Auction has brought much-needed clarity on the Spectrum Roadmap for Telecom Sector in India. Mobile operators have made significant investments in spectrum in Feb-14 auctions. To monetize this spectrum better, the operators need to increase their footprint geographically and ensure that their network is data-ready. Encouragingly, dataContinue Reading
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended re-farming of the 900MHz spectrum, as current licences will start to expire from 2014. In circles where operators migrate from 900MHz to 1,800MHz, they will have to increase the number of their sites by 1.6x to maintain existing coverage, according toContinue Reading
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